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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 456

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Relating to: grants for law enforcement officers to use risk assessment tools prior to making an arrest 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

for 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.

A law enforcement agency that receives 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: Anderson (D) , Baldeh (D) , Bowen (D) , Conley (D) , Emerson (D) , Goyke (D) , Hebl (D) , Hong (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D)

3 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D)

Full history

  1. Jul 12, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Bowen, Hong, Anderson, Baldeh, Conley, Emerson, Goyke, Hebl, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Shankland, Sinicki, Spreitzer and Subeck; cosponsored by Senators Larson, Carpenter and Roys

  2. Jul 12, 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