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Bill	Public employment: public officers or employees declared by law to be peace officers.	Existing law defines persons employed in specified capacities to be peace officers in the state of California and authorizes certain entities to appoint and employ peace officers. Existing law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training within the Department of Justice to perform various functions involving the training of peace officers. Existing law requires peace officers in this state to meet specified minimum standards, including, among other requirements, that peace officers be evaluated by a physician and surgeon or psychologist and found to be free from any physical, emotional, or mental condition that might adversely affect the exercise of the powers of a peace officer.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 846	California AB 846 (20192020)	bill	Public employment: public officers or employees declared by law to be peace officers.	enacted	Burke	11	43	9	2019-02-20	2020-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/b9414230-33c0-462a-aeeb-33df9bc141a5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB846	be9ce91bc48f3f032d284915efc216921ca215576b72ec4bcd35503bc7a019bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 846 (20192020) — Public employment: public officers or employees declared by law to be peace officers.

Existing law defines persons employed in specified capacities to be peace officers in the state of California and authorizes certain entities to appoint and employ peace officers. Existing law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training within the Department of Justice to perform various functions involving the training of peace officers. Existing law requires peace officers in this state to meet specified minimum standards, including, among other requirements, that peace officers be evaluated by a physician and surgeon or psychologist and found to be free from any physical, emotional, or mental condition that might adversely affect the exercise of the powers of a peace officer.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/20/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/30/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/20/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/11/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/30/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB846 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB846 Burke et al. By Bradford — 30–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 846 Burke Assembly Third Reading — 69–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 846 BURKE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 67–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burke — primary (person)
• Irwin — author (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2019-03-25 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2019-03-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2019-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2019-04-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-30 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1753.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 4. Page 2013.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-07-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-12 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Jackson.
• 2020-06-24 From inactive file.
• 2020-06-24 Ordered to second reading.
• 2020-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-26 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). referral-committee
• 2020-07-01 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-08-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 31). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 4354.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2020-08-31 Action rescinded whereby the bill was re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2020-08-31 Ordered to the unfinished business file.
• 2020-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 5486.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2020-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 322, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b9414230-33c0-462a-aeeb-33df9bc141a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).