PA SB46

Attorney General must develop a statewide model policy to prevent excessive force by law enforcement officers and school security personnel within 120 days, in consultation with the State Police Commissioner, police training commission, and community organizations like the NAACP and ACLU

Policy must include eight key provisions: requiring de-escalation tactics before using force, banning chokeholds and strangleholds, requiring verbal warnings before deadly force, prohibiting shooting at moving vehicles unless the person poses a non-vehicle deadly threat, exhausting all alternatives before deadly force, and establishing a duty to intervene when witnessing excessive force

All law enforcement agencies and school entities must adopt the model policy or develop their own policy meeting minimum standards within 60 days of promulgation, and must certify compliance to the Municipal Police Officers' Education and Training Commission

Agencies failing to adopt a compliant policy risk revocation or suspension of state-appropriated funding, with the Attorney General notifying the Governor and General Assembly of non-compliance

Attorney General must review and update the policy at least every two years, and training programs must be reviewed annually to ensure consistency with the model policy