HB 1635: Limiting liability arising from the use of trained police dogs.
Signed into law: Chapter 305, Laws of 2024
- Sponsor
- Mosbrucker
- Introduced
- January 27, 2023
- Status
- C 305 L 24
- Last action
- Effective date 6/6/2024. (March 26, 2024)
- As of
- August 18, 2026, 2:01 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Requires the Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC) to develop model standards for the training and certification of canine teams to detect fentanyl by December 1, 2024. Provides certain entities and their employees immunity from civil damages arising from the use of a canine to detect fentanyl, subject to specific conditions, beginning January 1, 2025.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · January 31, 202497 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting
- House: Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · March 5, 202496 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · February 29, 202449 yea · 0 nay
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