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Bill	Law enforcement training.	Existing law defines a "hate crime" as a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of actual or perceived characteristics of the victim, including, among other things, race, religion, disability, and sexual orientation. Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, in consultation with specified subject-matter experts, to develop a course of instruction that trains law enforcement on, among other things, indicators of hate crimes and techniques, responses to hate crime waves against certain groups, including Arab and Islamic communities, and methods to handle incidents of hate crimes in a noncombative manner.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2621	California AB 2621 (20232024)	bill	Law enforcement training	enacted	Gabriel	7	26	8	2024-02-14	2024-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/5c5af14f-845d-4c1d-b2ee-d00b9bf26328	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2621	cf2d41e4db4cf15326a5fb2df1342636a14d8fdcc6a9b71d820d95b978f09d7b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2621 (20232024) — Law enforcement training.

Existing law defines a "hate crime" as a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of actual or perceived characteristics of the victim, including, among other things, race, religion, disability, and sexual orientation. Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, in consultation with specified subject-matter experts, to develop a course of instruction that trains law enforcement on, among other things, indicators of hate crimes and techniques, responses to hate crime waves against certain groups, including Arab and Islamic communities, and methods to handle incidents of hate crimes in a noncombative manner.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/11/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/04/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/20/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/24/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2621 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2621 Gabriel Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB2621 Gabriel et al. By Min — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2621 Gabriel Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gabriel — primary (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2024-03-11 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-03-11 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
• 2024-03-12 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-04 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-08 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-04-17 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-18 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4999.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-04-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-08 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-05-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB S. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-17 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 532, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c5af14f-845d-4c1d-b2ee-d00b9bf26328. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).