AB 2224: Emergency vehicles: blue warning lights.

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Under existing law, specified peace officers, including, but not limited to, police officers, members of the University of California Police Department, and members of the California National Guard, are authorized to may, in the performance of the officers duties, display a specified blue warning light on their emergency vehicles.

This bill additionally would authorize additional peace officers, including, but not limited to, parole officers and correctional officers, probation officers, in the performance of their duties, to display a specified blue warning light on their emergency vehicles. The bill would require a probation officer to complete an emergency vehicle operations course certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training before he or she may operate a vehicle with a blue warning light.

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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1.Section 25258 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:25258.

(a)An authorized emergency vehicle operating under the conditions specified in Section 21055 may display a flashing white light from a gaseous discharge lamp designed and used for the purpose of controlling official traffic control signals.

(b)(1)An authorized emergency vehicle used by a probation officer, or a peace officer, as defined in Section 830.1 of, subdivision (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), or (i) of Section 830.2 of, subdivision (n) of Section 830.3 of, subdivision (b) of Section 830.31 of, subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 830.32 of, Section 830.33 of, subdivision (a) of Section 830.36 of, subdivision (a) of Section 830.4 of, Section 830.5 of, or Section 830.6 of, the Penal Code, in the performance of the peace officers duties, may, in addition, display a steady or flashing blue warning light visible from the front, sides, or rear of the vehicle.

(2)Before a probation officer operates a vehicle with a blue warning light, he or she shall complete an emergency vehicle operations course certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.

(c)Except as provided in subdivision (a), a vehicle shall not be equipped with a device that emits any illumination or radiation that is designed or used for the purpose of controlling official traffic control signals.

Date	Status
Feb 18, 2016	Read first time. To print.
Feb 19, 2016	From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
Mar 3, 2016	Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Mar 16, 2016	From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended.
Mar 17, 2016	Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Apr 18, 2016	In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

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Amended Assembly (3/16/2016)