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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 165

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Relating to: the responsibilities of the Law Enforcement Standards Board and disclosure of employment files when recruiting former or current officers.

Jail Juvenile detention facility Law enforcement standards board Lease Police

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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 makes certain changes to the responsibilities of the Law Enforcement

Standards Board. Under current law, the Law Enforcement Standards Board

regulates the training of law enforcement officers. This bill requires the Law

Enforcement Standards Board to also regulate jail and juvenile detention officer

training standards, and to regulate recruitment standards for the recruiting of new

law enforcement, jail, and juvenile detention officers.

The bill also requires each law enforcement agency to maintain an employment

file for each employee. Under the bill, when a law enforcement agency, jail, or

juvenile detention facility is recruiting for new officers, the agency, jail, or facility

must require each candidate that is or has been employed by a different agency, jail,

or facility to authorize that employer to disclose his or her employment files to the

recruiting agency, jail, or facility and to release that employer from any liability

related to the use and disclosure of the files.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Ballweg (R) , Bernier (R) , Cowles (R) , Darling (R) , Feyen (R) , Jacque (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Marklein (R) , Nass (R) , Testin (R) , Wanggaard (R)

18 cosponsors

Bowen (D) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Drake (D) , Gundrum (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Magnafici (R) , Moses (R) , Mursau (R) , Plumer (R) , Rozar (R) , Snyder (R) , Sortwell (R) , Steffen (R) , Subeck (D) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tusler (R) , Vining (D)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 0

Passed 7–0 May 7, 2021 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 3, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Testin, L. Taylor, Ballweg, Bernier, Cowles, Darling, Feyen, Jacque, Marklein, Nass and Wanggaard; cosponsored by Representatives Tusler, Cabral-Guevara, Sortwell, Bowen, Gundrum, Kuglitsch, Loudenbeck, Magnafici, Moses, Mursau, Plumer, Rozar, Snyder, Subeck and Thiesfeldt

  2. Mar 3, 2021 · Senate

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

  3. Mar 11, 2021 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. May 6, 2021 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  5. May 7, 2021 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 0

  6. May 7, 2021 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  7. May 7, 2021 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 5-11-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  8. May 11, 2021 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  9. May 11, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  10. May 11, 2021 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  11. May 11, 2021 · Senate

    Read a second time

  12. May 11, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  13. May 11, 2021 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  14. May 25, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Drake added as a cosponsor

  15. Jun 8, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  16. Jun 9, 2021 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 6-16-2021 by Committee on Rules

  17. Jun 11, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Steffen added as a cosponsor

  18. Jun 15, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Vining added as a cosponsor

  19. Jun 16, 2021 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  20. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1