Amended  IN  Assembly  March 18, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 2695

Introduced by Assembly Member Ramos

February 14, 2024

An act to amend Section 100100 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to the public health. 13730 of, and to add Section 13020.5 to, the Penal Code, relating to law enforcement.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2695, as amended, Ramos. Public health. Law enforcement: tribal affiliation.
Existing law requires specified entities and individuals to maintain records required for the correct reporting of statistical data and to report that data to the Department of Justice at the time and in the manner prescribed by the Attorney General. Existing law requires a law enforcement agency to develop an incident report form for recording all domestic violence-related calls for assistance that includes specified data, such as whether weapons are involved or whether there were any signs that the alleged abuser was under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance, among others.
This bill would require the above-described entities and individuals to disaggregate that data based on whether the incidents took place in Indian country, as defined, and would require a domestic violence incident report form to include a notation of whether the incident took place in Indian country. By expanding the duties of local law enforcement, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Existing law establishes the State Department of Health Care Services within the California Health and Human Services Agency. Existing law sets forth the department’s powers and duties relating to, among other things, public health, licensing and certification of certain health facilities, and the state Medi-Cal program.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to a related provision.

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NOYES   Local Program: NOYES  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) Public Law 83-280, commonly referred to as “Public Law 280,” was originally enacted in 1953. Public Law 280 altered the allocation of federal and state criminal jurisdiction over Indian country. Public Law 280 did not reduce nor expand tribal criminal jurisdiction. Public Law 280 provided no financial support for state law enforcement responsibilities.
(b) “Indian country” is defined in federal law as including federal reservations, whether created by statute or executive order, including fee land, land that is neither a reservation nor an allotment which has been validly set aside for the use of the Indians as Indian land, and under the superintendence of the government, and Indian allotments to which title has not been extinguished; land held in trust by the United States for a tribe or individual Indian is also accorded Indian country status.
(c) The federal government recognizes 574 American Indian tribes and Alaska Native entities in the United States. Second to Alaska, California has the most federally recognized tribes in the nation. There are currently 109 federally recognized Indian tribes and over 100 separate reservations or rancherias in California.
(d) Existing law requires the Department of Justice to provide technical assistance to local law enforcement agencies that have Indian lands within or abutting their jurisdictions, and to tribal governments with Indian lands, including those with and without tribal law enforcement agencies, to include, but not be limited to, both of the following:
(1) Providing guidance for law enforcement education and training on policing and criminal investigations on Indian lands that supports consistent implementation of California’s responsibilities for enforcing statewide criminal laws on Indian lands that protect the health, safety, and welfare of tribal citizens on Indian lands.
(2) Providing guidance on improving crime reporting, crime statistics, criminal procedures, and investigative tools for conducting police investigations of statewide criminal laws on Indian lands.
(e) Existing law establishes that it is the duty of the Department of Justice to collect data necessary for the work of the department from specified persons and agencies and from any other appropriate source.
(f) To improve upon the implementation of concurrent criminal jurisdiction on California Indian lands and to provide technical assistance to local law enforcement agencies that serve Indian country within or abutting their jurisdictions and tribal governments within Indian country, with or without tribal law enforcement agencies, the Attorney General must have access to criminal reporting statistical data to carry out the responsibilities and obligations under existing law.

SEC. 2.

 Section 13020.5 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

13020.5.
 (a) Records and data reported pursuant to Section 13020 shall be disaggregated by whether an incident occurred in Indian country.
(b) As used in this section, the term “Indian country” has the same meaning as in Section 1151 of Title 18 of the United States Code.

SEC. 3.

 Section 13730 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

13730.
 (a) Each law enforcement agency shall develop a system, by January 1, 1986, for recording all domestic violence-related calls for assistance made to the department, including whether weapons are involved, or whether the incident involved strangulation or suffocation. All domestic violence-related calls for assistance shall be supported with a written incident report, as described in subdivision (c), identifying the domestic violence incident. Monthly, the total number of domestic violence calls received and the numbers of those cases involving weapons or strangulation or suffocation shall be compiled by each law enforcement agency and submitted to the Attorney General.
(b) The Attorney General shall report annually to the Governor, the Legislature, and the public the total number of domestic violence-related calls received by California law enforcement agencies, the number of cases involving weapons, the number of cases involving strangulation or suffocation, and a breakdown of calls received by agency, city, and county.
(c) Each law enforcement agency shall develop an incident report form that includes a domestic violence identification code by January 1, 1986. In all incidents of domestic violence, a report shall be written and shall be identified on the face of the report as a domestic violence incident. The report shall include at least all of the following:
(1) A notation of whether the officer or officers who responded to the domestic violence call observed any signs that the alleged abuser was under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance.
(2) A notation of whether the officer or officers who responded to the domestic violence call determined if any law enforcement agency had previously responded to a domestic violence call at the same address involving the same alleged abuser or victim.
(3) A notation of whether the officer or officers who responded to the domestic violence call found it necessary, for the protection of the peace officer or other persons present, to inquire of the victim, the alleged abuser, or both, whether a firearm or other deadly weapon was present at the location, and, if there is an inquiry, whether that inquiry disclosed the presence of a firearm or other deadly weapon. Any firearm or other deadly weapon discovered by an officer at the scene of a domestic violence incident shall be subject to confiscation pursuant to Division 4 (commencing with Section 18250) of Title 2 of Part 6.
(4) A notation of whether there were indications that the incident involved strangulation or suffocation. This includes whether any witness or victim reported any incident of strangulation or suffocation, whether any victim reported symptoms of strangulation or suffocation, or whether the officer observed any signs of strangulation or suffocation.
(5) A notation of whether the incident took place in Indian country as defined in Section 1151 of Title 18 of the United States Code.

SEC. 4.

 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
SECTION 1.Section 100100 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:
100100.

There is in the state government in the California Health and Human Services Agency a State Department of Health Services, which, effective July 1, 2007, is hereby renamed the State Department of Health Care Services. Commencing July 1, 2007, any reference in this chapter, in Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 100145), or in Article 1 (commencing with Section 100150) of Chapter 2 to the State Department of Health Services is deemed to, instead, refer to the State Department of Health Care Services with regard to functions not transferred to the State Department of Public Health. Commencing July 1, 2007, all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the former State Department of Health Services not vested in the State Department of Public Health pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 131050) of Part 1 of Division 112 shall be retained by, and thereafter be performed by, the renamed State Department of Health Care Services.