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 05/18/26 - Amended Assembly
 04/07/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/19/26 - Introduced

 AB-2318 Law enforcement: facilitating medical care.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/25/2026 09:00 PM

AB2318:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 25, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 18, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 07, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2318

Introduced by Assembly Member Elhawary
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Mark González and Schultz)
(Coauthors: Senators Gonzalez and Wiener)

February 19, 2026

 An act to add Section 832.11 to the Penal Code, relating to law enforcement.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2318, as amended, Elhawary.
 Law enforcement: facilitating medical care.

Existing law generally provides for the regulation of law enforcement agencies and requires specified law enforcement agencies to maintain policies on, among other things, use of force, hate crimes, and gun violence restraining orders. Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to establish and keep updated a field training officer course relating to competencies of the field training program and police training program that addresses how to interact with persons with certain conditions.

This bill would make it unlawful for a law enforcement officer to deny, delay, obstruct, or fail to facilitate access to medical evaluation or treatment for an individual under law enforcement control, but who is not in the custody of, or detained in, a county jail or the state prison, if it is safe and reasonable to provide
 access to treatment and a medical professional has been requested or is present or has been requested. and is willing to render care to the individual. If access to medical evaluation or treatment is denied or delayed when a medical professional is present, present and is willing to assist, the bill would require law enforcement to provide written documentation for
 document the basis of a the denial within 72 hours of the incident, as specified. The bill would authorize administrative discipline, including suspension or termination, against a law enforcement officer who violates those provisions. The bill would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to incorporate guidance on those provisions into law enforcement training curricula. By creating a new crime and by increasing the duties on local law enforcement relating to reporting, the bill would impose 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 832.11 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

832.11.

 (a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:

(1) “Law enforcement” means any federal, state, or local law enforcement, acting under the color of the law, to the extent permitted by federal law.

(2) “Medical professional” means an individual licensed or certified to provide emergency medical care. who is qualified by education, training, licensure, or regulation to perform a professional medical service within their scope of practice.

(b) (1) It shall be unlawful for any law enforcement officer to deny, delay, obstruct, or fail to facilitate access to medical evaluation or treatment for an individual under law enforcement control if it is safe and reasonable to provide access to the treatment and a medical professional has been requested or is present or has been requested. and is willing to render care to the individual.

(2) This subdivision does not appl