Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session
Relating to: eliminating police powers for railway companies.
Police Railroad Railroad — Passenger service
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill eliminates the authority of railway companies to appoint and employ
railroad police officers. This bill also eliminates the authority of a railroad conductor
to arrest passengers. Under current law, railroad police officers have general police
powers, including the power to arrest, relating to violations of state law or local
ordinance that occur on railroad cars or railway company property.