Freddie Rodriguez
- Democratic
- Assemblymember
- District 53
Author
Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, authorizes the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency, and local officials and local governments to proclaim a local emergency, when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist. Existing law establishes the Office of Emergency Services (OES) within the office of the Governor and sets forth its powers and duties relating to responsibility over the state's emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or manmade disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters to people and property. This bill would require OES to biennially convene key personnel and agencies that have emergency management roles and responsibilities to participate in tabletop exercises in which the participant's emergency preparedness plans are discussed and evaluated under various simulated catastrophic disaster situations, as specified. This bill would require the tabletop exercises to be designed by OES to enhance the capabilities of the participants to do various things, including to engage the communities that they each serve, as appropriate, in the development of executable strategic, operational, or tactical-level approaches to meet defined disaster response objectives. This bill would require OES to report on each tabletop exercise it conducts to the committees on budget, the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management, and the Senate Committee on Governmental Organization by February 1, 2023, and biennially thereafter of the calendar year following each biennial simulation and evaluation. The bill would require OES to use federal preparedness grant funding to offset the state, local, and tribal government costs associated with participation in the tabletop exercises to the greatest extent possible. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
In committee: Held under submission.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1824.).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20).
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5.
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 5).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.M. Read second time and amended.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| AB1071 | HTML |
| 02/18/21 - Introduced | |
| 03/25/21 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/28/21 - Amended Senate |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/01/21- Assembly Emergency Management | |
| 04/26/21- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 05/24/21- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 07/02/21- Senate Governmental Organization | |
| 07/13/21- Senate Appropriations |
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