California Penal Code

§ 13519.6

PEN § 13519.6 Effective Jan 1, 2025Title 4 · Part 4 · Ch. 1 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)(1) The commission, in consultation with subject-matter experts, including, but not limited to, law enforcement agencies, civil rights groups, and academic experts, and the Department of Justice, shall develop guidelines and a course of instruction and training for law enforcement officers who are employed as peace officers, or who are not yet employed as a peace officer but are enrolled in a training academy for law enforcement officers, addressing hate crimes. “Hate crimes,” for purposes of this section, has the same meaning as in Section 422.55.

(2)The commission shall consult with the subject-matter experts in paragraph (1) if the guidelines or course of instruction are updated.

(3)The guidelines and course of instruction developed pursuant to this section are not regulations as that term is used in the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 commencing with Section 11340 of Part 1 of Division 3 of the Government Code). This paragraph is declaratory of existing law.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 532, Sec. 1. (AB 2621) Effective January 1, 2025.