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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 51

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

Alien Law enforcement standards board 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) , Behnke (R) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Emerson (D) , Green (R) , Kitchens (R) , Krug (R) , Macco (R) , Michalski (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , O'Connor (R) , Ohnstad (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , S. Johnson (R) , Schmidt (R) , Schraa (R) , Snyder (R) , Steffen (R)

16 cosponsors

C. Anderson (D) , Cabrera and Andraca , Carpenter (D) , Drake (D) , Gustafson (R) , Hesselbein (D) , Jacobson (D) , Jacque (R) , James (R) , Joers (D) , Knodl (R) , Ratcliff (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs and Subeck , Taylor (D) , Wichgers (R)

Votes

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

Passed 14–1 Mar 13, 2023 official source full page

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

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 6, Noes 1

Passed 6–1 May 23, 2023 official source full page

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

Senate: Referred to committee on Senate Organization, Ayes 22, Noes 10

Passed 22–10 Feb 20, 2024 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. Feb 20, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Macco, Steffen, Kitchens, Armstrong, Baldeh, Behnke, Duchow, Edming, Emerson, S. Johnson, Krug, Michalski, Murphy, Mursau, O'Connor, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Schmidt, Schraa, Snyder and Green; cosponsored by Senators James, Taylor and Jacque

  2. Feb 20, 2023 · Assembly

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

  3. Feb 22, 2023 · Assembly

    Senator Spreitzer added as a cosponsor

  4. Feb 22, 2023 · Assembly

    Representatives Stubbs and Subeck added as coauthors

  5. Feb 28, 2023 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Feb 28, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Wichgers added as a coauthor

  7. Mar 2, 2023 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Sortwell

  8. Mar 7, 2023 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  9. Mar 10, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Knodl added as a coauthor

  10. Mar 13, 2023 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  11. Mar 13, 2023 · Assembly

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

  12. Mar 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 3-22-2023 by Committee on Rules

  13. Mar 16, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative C. Anderson added as a coauthor

  14. Mar 21, 2023 · Assembly

    Representatives Cabrera and Andraca added as coauthors

  15. Mar 22, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  16. Mar 22, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  17. Mar 22, 2023 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  18. Mar 22, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  19. Mar 22, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Drake added as a coauthor

  20. Mar 22, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  21. Mar 23, 2023 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  22. Mar 23, 2023 · Senate

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

  23. May 8, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Joers added as a coauthor

  24. May 10, 2023 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  25. May 23, 2023 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  26. May 23, 2023 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 6, Noes 1

  27. May 23, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  28. May 30, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Ratcliff added as a coauthor

  29. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Gustafson added as a coauthor

  30. Jan 2, 2024 · Senate

    Representative Jacobson added as a coauthor

  31. Jan 19, 2024 · Senate

    Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor

  32. Feb 19, 2024 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-20-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  33. Feb 20, 2024 · Senate

    Referred to committee on Senate Organization, Ayes 22, Noes 10

  34. Apr 10, 2024 · Senate

    Senator Hesselbein added as a cosponsor

  35. Apr 15, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1