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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1598
Author: Rodriguez (D)
Amended: 8/12/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE : 5-0, 6/17/14
AYES: Hancock, De León, Liu, Mitchell, Steinberg
NO VOTE RECORDED: Anderson, Knight
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 79-0, 5/28/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Emergency response services: active shooter
incidents
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires fire, law enforcement, and
emergency medical services agencies to jointly establish
standard operating procedures and coordinated training programs
for active shooter incidents.
Senate Floor Amendments of 8/12/14 are clarifying amendments.
ANALYSIS : Existing law:
1.Establishes Peace Officers Standards of Training (POST) within
the Department of Justice.
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2.Authorizes POST, for the purpose of raising the level of
competence of local law enforcement officers, to adopt rules
establishing minimum standards related to physical, mental and
moral fitness and training that shall govern the recruitment
of any peace officers in California.
3.Requires POST, on or before July 1, 2005, to develop and
disseminate guidelines and standardized training
recommendations for all law enforcement officers, supervisors,
and managers whose agency assigns them to perform, supervise,
or manage Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) operations. The
guidelines and standardized training recommendations shall be
available for use by law enforcement agencies that conduct
SWAT operations.
4.Requires POST to establish training standards that include
recommendations from the Emergency Response Training Advisory
Committee, involving the responsibility of first responders to
terrorism incidents. Allows every police chief and sheriff,
the Commissioner of the Highway Patrol, and other general law
enforcement agency to determine the members of his, her, or
its agency to receive the emergency response to terrorism
incidents training developed by POST.
5.Requires the Curriculum Development Advisory Committee (CDAC)
to, among other things, provide advice on the development of
terrorism awareness course curricula and response training.
6.Requires the Office of Emergency Services to contract with the
California Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Program to
develop a fire service specific course of instruction on the
responsibilities of first responders to terrorism incidents.
7.Establishes Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) which
is responsible for the coordination and integration of all
state agencies concerning emergency medical services.
8.Requires EMSA to establish training standards that include the
criteria for the curriculum content recommended by CDAC,
involving the responsibilities of first responders to
terrorism incidents and to address the training needs of those
identified as first responders.
9.Requires the State Fire Marshall to establish training
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standards that include recommendations from the Emergency
Response Training Advisory Committee, involving the
responsibility of first responders to terrorism incidents and
to address the training needs of those identified as first
responders.
This bill:
1.Requires the CDAC to consult with POST.
2.Requires that the EMSA training standards include criteria for
coordinating between different responding entities.
3.Requires the Interdepartmental Committee on Emergency Medical
Services (ICEMS), or another committee designated by the
Director of EMSA, to consult with POST regarding emergency
medical services integration and coordination with peace
officer training.
4.Provides that the training standards and course of instruction
may, if appropriate, include coordination with emergency
medical services providers that respond to an incident,
tactical casualty care, and other standards of emergency care
as established by the EMSA.
5.Defines a "terrorism incident" to include, but not be limited
to, an active shooter incident.
6.Defines, an "active shooter incident" as an incident where an
individual is actively engaged in killing or attempting to
kill people.
7.Provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to do the
following:
A. Require development of collaborative protocols and
relationships between local and state first response
entities, including law enforcement agencies, fire
departments, and emergency medical services providers and
agencies, in order that those entities shall act
effectively and in concert to address active shooter
incidents across California.
B. Require first response entities to seek collaborative
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training opportunities, including, but not limited to,
table top or simulation exercises, to assess plan
implementations, and to include other entities that may be
involved in active shooter incidents in those trainings,
such as schools, city or county personnel, and private
businesses.
C. Require basic and ongoing training for law enforcement
agency personnel, fire department personnel, emergency
medical services personnel, and the personnel for other
first responders include, as appropriate, training and
education on active shooter incidents, tactical casualty
care, and interagency coordination.
1.States that it is further the intent of the Legislature that
each first response entity, in collaboration with other law
enforcement agencies, fire departments, and emergency medical
service providers and agencies, develop protocols for
responding to active shooter incidents.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/12/14)
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees,
AFL-CIO
Association for Los Angeles Sheriffs
Los Angeles Police Protective League
Riverside Sheriffs' Association
United EMS Workers - AFSCME Local 4911
OPPOSITION : (Verified 8/12/14)
California Association of Federal Firearms Licensees
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author, "Although
active shooter incidences are not a frequent event, they do
occur and California first responders need to work together to
minimize response times and to work together as a coordinated
unit so that casualties are reduced and minimized. It is
general law enforcement policy to secure a crime scene prior to
allowing emergency medical responders on the scene. By
requiring cooperative training and planning, law enforcement and
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emergency responders can more quickly secure a scene and permit
lifesaving medical care to be provided to the injured."
ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION : California Association of Federal
Firearms Licensees states in opposition, "When our brave men and
women in uniform arrive to the scene of a tense, dangerous, and
chaotic active shooter incident, with thousands of
lawfully-armed citizens in our communities, an oversight in or
lack of training and appropriate protocols that account for out
'good guys with a gun' could lead to a 'good guy on good guy'
friendly-fire type incident. The curriculum, training, and
protocols mandated under AB 1598 must reflect reality and work
to reduce the risk to our peace officers and armed law-abiding
citizens?whatever the cost."
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 79-0, 5/28/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández,
Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi,
Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A.
Pérez, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner,
Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Vacancy
JG:nl 8/13/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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