SB5035
Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; localities may establish, duties, effective date.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies.
Authorizes a locality to establish a law-enforcement civilian oversight body that may (i) receive, investigate, and issue findings on complaints from civilians regarding conduct of law-enforcement officers and civilian employees; (ii) investigate and issue findings on incidents, including the use of force by a law-enforcement officer, death or serious injury ... (More) to any person held in custody, serious abuse of authority or misconduct, allegedly discriminatory stops, and other incidents regarding the conduct of law-enforcement officers or civilian employees; (iii) make binding disciplinary determinations in cases that involve serious breaches of departmental and professional standards; (iv) investigate policies, practices, and procedures of law-enforcement agencies and make recommendations regarding changes to such policies, practices, and procedures; (v) review all investigations conducted internally by law-enforcement agencies and issue findings regarding the accuracy, completeness, and impartiality of such investigations and the sufficiency of any discipline resulting from such investigations; (vi) request reports of the annual expenditures of law-enforcement agencies and make budgetary recommendations; (vii) make public reports on the activities of the board; and (viii) undertake any other duties as reasonably necessary for the board to effectuate its lawful purpose to effectively oversee the law-enforcement agencies as authorized by the locality. Such oversight bodies would not be authorized to oversee sheriff's departments. The bill provides that a law-enforcement officer who is subject to a binding disciplinary determination may file a grievance requesting a final hearing pursuant to the locality's local grievance procedures. (Less)-
Bill History
- 08/14/2020 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200588D
- 08/14/2020 - Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 08/20/2020 - Senate: Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 08/20/2020 - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 6-N)
- 08/20/2020 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 20200879D-S1
- 08/20/2020 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 08/21/2020 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB5035S1)
- 09/03/2020 - Senate: Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 09/03/2020 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (11-Y 5-N)
- 09/03/2020 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 20201005D-S2
- 09/03/2020 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB5035S2)
- 09/04/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 09/10/2020 - Senate: Read second time
- 09/10/2020 - Senate: Committee substitute from Judiciary rejected 20200902D-S1s4410
- 09/10/2020 - Senate: Committee substitute from Finance and Appropriations agreed to 20201005D-S2
- 09/10/2020 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB5035S2
- 09/15/2020 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 15-N) Close Floor Vote
