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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 230

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Relating to: citizenship requirements for local law enforcement officers. (FE)

Citizenship 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 to serve as a county deputy

sheriff or as a city, village, or town police officer unless the person is a citizen of the

United States. This bill repeals that citizenship requirement. The bill also prohibits

the Law Enforcement Standards Board from preventing a person from participating

in a law enforcement preparatory training program because the person is not a

citizen of the United States.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Baldeh (D) , Cabrera (D) , Conley (D) , Emerson (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Shelton (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D)

2 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Roys (D)

Full history

  1. Mar 31, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Shelton, Cabrera, Emerson, Ortiz-Velez, Anderson, Baldeh, Conley, Hebl, Hesselbein, Snodgrass, Spreitzer, Stubbs and Subeck; cosponsored by Senators Carpenter and Roys

  2. Mar 31, 2021 · Assembly

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

  3. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1