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Joint committees advance SB 332 with amendments to plainclothes and immigration-enforcement rules
Summary
Chairs of two Senate committees recommended passing SB 332 with amendments that exempt plainclothes officers from certain identification rules, require conspicuous markings only on vehicles used for immigration enforcement, and permit masked plainclothes officers under narrowly defined circumstances; the public-safety committee adopted the recommendation after recorded votes.
Chairs of the Senate Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and on Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs jointly recommended advancing Senate Bill 332 with amendments that alter identification and vehicle-marking requirements for law enforcement.
Under the amendments described by the chairs, plainclothes officers would be exempt from some rules requiring officers to wear identification; vehicles used solely in immigration enforcement operations would be required to bear conspicuous law‑enforcement markings; and a plainclothes officer would be authorized to wear a mask while performing official duties only when in eyesight of an unmasked officer from the same agency.
The public‑safety committee recorded a roll-call vote on the chair’s recommendation. Chair Fukunaga and Vice Chair Lee voted aye; Senator DeCour voted no; Senator Noi was excused. The committee adopted the chair’s recommendation to pass SB 332 with the proposed amendments.
The committees said the amendments reflected input from the Department of Law Enforcement and intended to balance officer safety and transparency. No public testimony on SB 332 is recorded in the provided transcript excerpt.
The committee report will accompany the bill as it moves forward to subsequent referral and contains the adopted amendments and the committee’s recommendation.
