AB 1019 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount: identification of unidentified human remains.

Summary

Existing law requires a certain percentage of funds to be allocated to specified rural and small county sheriffs' departments from funds remaining in the Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, as specified. Existing law requires that funds allocated pursuant to these provisions be used to enhance law enforcement efforts in those counties. This bill would specifically authorize a county sheriff's department to use up to 20% of those funds for the identification of unidentified human remains, including using the funds for forensic examination and genealogical research.

Issues: ✓ Criminal Justice

Bill status failed 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

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Governor

Introduced Feb 20, 2025 Last action Feb 2, 2026

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02/20/25 - Introduced → AB1019 · 1 edit

MINOR

No substantive policy changes were made between these two versions of AB 1019. The differences are entirely in formatting and presentation: the bill text was re-rendered from a traditional legislative document layout (with line numbers, page headers, and column formatting) to a web-based layout with navigation elements. The actual statutory language of Section 30070 of the Government Code is identical in both versions.

TECHNICAL

The bill text was reformatted from a traditional printed legislative document style (with line numbers, page breaks, and dot leaders for county percentages) to a web-based presentation format. No changes were made to the substantive content of the bill.

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Committee

Feb 2, 2026

Lower · Passed

From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

lower

Apr 8, 2025

Lower · Passed

In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

lower

Apr 1, 2025

Lower · Passed

In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

lower

Mar 10, 2025

Committee

Referred to Com. on PUB. S.

lower

Feb 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors