CaliforniaCalifornia would fund community groups to respond to some crises
If state funding is available, California's social services department would award grants to community organizations to provide alternatives to police responses in some crises.
What it does
If state funding is available, the department would award grants of at least $250,000 a year to eligible community organizations. Police agencies cannot receive the grants.
Grant recipients would build community responses to crises outside fire and emergency medical services. Police could not serve as first responders or co-responders in those programs.
A department workgroup would advise on grants, program design, and evaluation. Grantees would report at least yearly on their spending, the people served, and results.
The department would post a public report on the program's results, savings, and the communities served six months after the program ends.
Argument forCommunity groups could respond to some crises without police, offering another option for people in communities with a demonstrated need.
Argument againstCrisis teams cannot include police as first responders or co-responders, which could leave communities with fewer response options when state funding is available.
More detail
The Department of Social Services would award grants to eligible community-based organizations. Eligible grantees are public or nonprofit community-based organizations, including fiscally sponsored organizations, that can show they can provide community alternatives to law enforcement and have ties to the communities they would serve. Law enforcement agencies cannot receive grants. The program operates only if appropriate funding is made available, including an appropriation in the annual Budget Act. Each grant must be at least $250,000 per year. The department must prioritize proposals serving historically marginalized populations and communities with a demonstrated need. The first grants are due by October 1, 2027, with awards due annually after that, subject to funding.
Grant recipients would use the money to create or strengthen community responses to some crises. Grant-funded alternatives are for crisis situations in California communities and must lessen reliance on law enforcement as first responders. Responses may include mobile crisis teams or community paramedicine programs. Police officers or agencies cannot act as first responders or co-responders in these alternatives. The program covers crises unrelated to fire department or emergency medical service responses.
The department would convene a stakeholder workgroup and require annual reports from grantees. The department's workgroup must include specified emergency and health practitioners, crisis survivors, survivors of police brutality, and family members of people who died or were seriously injured through police use of force. Current and former law enforcement officers and their immediate family members cannot serve. The workgroup would advise on grant criteria, program practices, implementation barriers, data, and evaluation. Grantee reports must include information about people served and program outcomes, as determined by the department in consultation with the workgroup. Grantees must report at least annually while receiving program funding.
The department would publish a report on the program after it ends. The report concerns the C.R.I.S.E.S. Grant Pilot Program 2.0. The report must cover program and fiscal savings, conclusions, populations served, and benefits, using numerical and descriptive information. The chapter becomes inactive June 30, 2032, and is repealed January 1, 2033; the public report is due six months after the program ends.
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
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- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Sep 27Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 562, Statutes of 2026.Latest
- Sep 27Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 3Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.To Governor
- Aug 26Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 6572.).Major
- Vote recorded AB 1932 Elhawary Concurrence in Senate Amendments. Result: pass.Lower
- Aug 25In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB1932 Elhawary et al. By Arreguín. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 25Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.).Passed Senate
- Aug 24Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 21Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.Major
- Aug 17Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 13Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.Major
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 13From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 13).Major
- Jun 29In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- Vote recorded Placed on suspense file. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 16From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Jun 15
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 3Referred to Com. on HUMAN S.Minor
- May 21In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Vote recorded AB 1932 Elhawary Third Reading Urgency. Result: pass.Lower
- May 21Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 2. Page 5204.).Passed Assembly
- May 18Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- May 14From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 14).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- May 14Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5030.)
- May 13In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- Apr 22From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 22Coauthors revised.
- Apr 21
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 20Re-referred to Com. on JUD.Minor
- Apr 16Read second time and amended.Major
- Apr 15From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 14).Major
- Apr 14Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 13From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended.Major
- Mar 16Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD.Minor
- Feb 14From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- Feb 13Read first time. To print.Introduced
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