Vince Fong
- Republican
Author
The Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations, as defined, unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The act authorizes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt from some or all of those provisions of the act a person engaging in specified forest management activities, as prescribed, including the harvesting of trees for the purpose of reducing the rate of fire spread, duration and intensity, fuel ignitability, or ignition of tree crowns, as provided, known as the Forest Fire Prevention Exemption. The act provides that the Forest Fire Prevention Exemption is operative for a period of 5 years after the effective date of emergency regulations adopted by the board to implement the exemption and is inoperative after that 5-year period. Existing regulations implementing that exemption specify that it becomes inoperative 5 years after February 19, 2019. This bill would make the operation of the Forest Fire Prevention Exemption inoperative on January 1, 2026.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 491, Statutes of 2022.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 2. Page 4944.).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 4. Page 3401.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (January 20).
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (January 10).
From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| AB522 | HTML |
| 02/10/21 - Introduced | |
| 01/12/22 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/24/22 - Enrolled | |
| 09/23/22 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 01/07/22- Assembly Natural Resources | |
| 01/20/22- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 01/24/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 05/26/22- Senate Natural Resources and Water | |
| 06/23/22- Senate Natural Resources and Water | |
| 08/03/22- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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