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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 979

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Relating to: grants for law enforcement officers to use risk assessment tools prior to arresting persons, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Justice, department of Police

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill creates a grant program, administered by the department of justice

(DOJ), in which grants are distributed to law enforcement agencies to incorporate

a prearrest risk assessment tool into their arrest practices. Under the bill, in order

to receive a grant, a law enforcement agency must identify an evidence-based risk

assessment tool that its law enforcement officers will use to determine whether a

person should be arrested for a crime.

Under the bill, law enforcement agencies that receive a grant will provide

information to DOJ regarding the use of the evidence-based risk assessment tool,

including the number of persons screened, the number of persons arrested after

screening, and the number of persons not arrested after screening. DOJ must

analyze the data submitted each year and prepare a progress report that evaluates

the effectiveness of the program. Every five years, DOJ must submit a report

summarizing the grant program and its effects to the legislature.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Barnes (D) , Berceau (D) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , Considine (D) , Goyke (D) , Johnson (D) , Kessler (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Zamarripa (D)

2 cosponsors

C. Larson (D) , L. Taylor (D)

Full history

  1. Mar 10, 2016 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Goyke, Bowen, Barnes, Brostoff, Kessler, Berceau, Johnson, Spreitzer, Considine and Zamarripa; cosponsored by Senators C. Larson and L. Taylor

  2. Mar 10, 2016 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1