Bill Dodd
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 3
Author
Existing law requires a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains a building or structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered lands, shrub-covered lands, grass-covered lands, or land that is covered with flammable material to maintain defensible space of 100 feet from each side. Existing law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a statewide program to allow qualified entities, including counties and other political subdivisions of the state, to support and augment the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in its defensible space and home hardening assessment and education efforts. Existing law requires the director to establish a common reporting platform that allows defensible space and home hardening assessment data, collected by the qualified entities, to be reported to the department. This bill would require any local governmental entity that is qualified to conduct these defensible space assessments in very high and high fire hazard severity zones, as specified, and that reports that information to the department, to report that information using the common reporting platform. The bill would require the department, on December 31, 2023, and annually thereafter, to report to the Legislature all defensible space data collected through the common reporting platform, as provided. Existing law requires the department to establish a local assistance grant program for fire prevention and home hardening education activities and provides that local agencies, among others, are eligible for these grants. This bill would require the department, when reviewing applications for the local assistance grant program, to give priority to any local governmental entity qualified to perform defensible space assessments in very high and high fire hazard severity zones, as specified, for using the common reporting platform to report that information.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 222, Statutes of 2022.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5827.) Ordered to the Senate.
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 3).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 3702.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Ordered to second reading.
Read third time and amended.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
Set for hearing April 4.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3048.) (March 8).
Set for hearing March 8.
(Ayes 31. Noes 6.)
Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)
Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 4.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB896 | HTML |
| 02/01/22 - Introduced | |
| 03/10/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/05/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/12/22 - Enrolled | |
| 08/29/22 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/02/22- Senate Natural Resources and Water | |
| 04/06/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 05/11/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/10/22- Assembly Natural Resources | |
| 08/01/22- Assembly Appropriations |
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