H.B. 1059 Summary

• Prohibits law enforcement officers from engaging in discriminatory profiling based on race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity during the performance of their duties.

• Requires law enforcement agencies to report whether officers attempted to determine immigration status during traffic stops, and establishes new homicide data collection requirements including victim and offender demographics, geographic location, and case resolution times.

• Mandates annual training for criminal justice officers and sheriffs' deputies on the prohibition against discriminatory profiling and proper data collection techniques.

• Requires counties and cities to provide training to neighborhood crime watch program members about discriminatory profiling and methods to prevent it while performing community watch duties.

• Appropriates $80,000 for fiscal year 2016-2017 to fund a criminal justice coordinator position to conduct the required training.