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Bill	Peace officers: minimum qualifications.	Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to establish a certification program for specified peace officers, including officers of the Department of the California Highway Patrol. Existing law requires the commission to establish basic, intermediate, advanced, supervisory, management, and executive certificates for the purpose of fostering the education and experience necessary to perform general police service duties. Existing law requires certificates to be awarded on the basis of a combination of training, education, experience, and other prerequisites, as determined by the commission.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 89	California AB 89 (20212022)	bill	Peace officers: minimum qualifications.	enacted	Jones-Sawyer	8	25	7	2020-12-07	2021-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/ec53b8e0-2ad9-4c49-a78f-14f12a0434b6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB89	67d820c141f3c170f1296e2cb92d0bf2f7adf25fd0c854f7fd81df8e8d0ef716	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 89 (20212022) — Peace officers: minimum qualifications.

Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to establish a certification program for specified peace officers, including officers of the Department of the California Highway Patrol. Existing law requires the commission to establish basic, intermediate, advanced, supervisory, management, and executive certificates for the purpose of fostering the education and experience necessary to perform general police service duties. Existing law requires certificates to be awarded on the basis of a combination of training, education, experience, and other prerequisites, as determined by the commission.

Version chain

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

1. 12/07/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/17/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/30/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB89 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/15/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB89 Jones-Sawyer et al. By Portantino — 32–3 (pass) · upper
• AB 89 Jones-Sawyer Assembly Third Reading — 49–13 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 89 Jones-Sawyer Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 54–17 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — principal coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — principal coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-12-08 From printer. May be heard in committee January 7.
• 2021-01-11 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-02-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-02-18 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-04-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 13. Page 1890.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-16 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 3. Page 2617.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 17. Page 3145.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2021-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 405, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ec53b8e0-2ad9-4c49-a78f-14f12a0434b6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).