Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Thursday that enacted a number reforms to policing and police departments in the state, NBC News reports.
The new law includes a provision that allows the state to decertify officers who have been found guilty of misconduct, preventing them from leaving one city’s police department and getting a job at a different city’s force.
The bill raises the minimum age for police officers from 18 to 21. It also proscribes times when police departments can use beanbag rounds or rubber bullets when responding to unrest, and it bans the use of various chokeholds. In another response to George Floyd’s murder at the hand of a Minneapolis police officer, the bill required police officers to report when their colleagues use excessive force.