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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 176

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Relating to: appointment of certain lawfully present aliens as law enforcement officers.

Alien Law enforcement standards board Lease Police Sheriff

  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

Under current law, no person may be appointed as a deputy sheriff of any

county or police officer of any city, village, or town unless that person is a citizen of

the United States. This bill allows the sheriff of a county or the appointing authority

of a local law enforcement agency to elect to authorize the appointment of aliens who

are the subject of a notice of decision from the federal Department of Homeland

Security (DHS) granting deferred action under the Deferred Action for Childhood

Arrivals program and who are in receipt of a valid employment authorization from

the DHS as deputy sheriffs or police officers. The bill also prevents the law

enforcement standards board from preventing such an alien from participating in a

law enforcement preparatory training program.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Armstrong (R) , Baldeh (D) , James (R) , Kitchens (R) , Macco (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Rozar (R) , Sinicki (D) , Skowronski (R) , Steffen (R) , Subeck (D) , Tauchen (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tusler (R) , Zimmerman (R)

11 cosponsors

Bernier (R) , Bowen (D) , Cabrera (D) , Conley and Stubbs , Cowles (R) , Drake and Emerson , Jacque (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Roys (D) , Shelton (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 1

Passed 14–1 Feb 1, 2022 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Mar 23, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Macco, Steffen, Armstrong, Baldeh, James, Kitchens, Ortiz-Velez, Rozar, Skowronski, Subeck, Tauchen, Thiesfeldt, Tusler, Zimmerman and Sinicki; cosponsored by Senators Bernier, Cowles, Jacque, Roys and L. Taylor

  2. Mar 23, 2021 · Assembly

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

  3. Jun 10, 2021 · Assembly

    Representatives Drake and Emerson added as coauthors

  4. Jun 10, 2021 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Jun 14, 2021 · Assembly

    Representatives Conley and Stubbs added as coauthors

  6. Jun 17, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Bowen added as a coauthor

  7. Jun 17, 2021 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  8. Jun 25, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Ohnstad added as a coauthor

  9. Jan 24, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Cabrera added as a coauthor

  10. Feb 1, 2022 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  11. Feb 1, 2022 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 1

  12. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Shelton added as a coauthor

  13. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 8:05 AM on 2-23-2022 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 29

  14. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  15. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  16. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  17. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  18. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  19. Feb 23, 2022 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  20. Feb 24, 2022 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Public Safety

  21. Mar 15, 2022 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1