Monique Limón
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 19
Author
Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to appoint a Range Management Advisory Committee and to consult with the advisory committee on rangeland resource issues under consideration by the board. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2025, the advisory committee, in consultation with specified entities, to develop guidance for local or regional prescribed grazing plans, as provided. The bill would require the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (department) and the Department of Conservation to consider and incorporate this guidance in specified grant programs, as provided. Existing law requires the department to establish a local assistance grant program for eligible groups for purposes of specified fire prevention and home hardening education activities in the state, including public education outreach activities and projects to improve compliance with defensible space requirements through increased inspections, assessments, and assistance for low-income residents, as provided. Existing law authorizes the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to authorize advance payments from a local assistance grant award, subject to specified conditions, and requires the grantee of the advance payment to file an accountability report with the department 4 months from the date of receiving the funds and every 4 months thereafter. Existing law makes funding for this program subject to an appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would expand the fire prevention and home hardening education activities eligible for these grants to include projects involving the application of prescribed grazing, as provided. The bill would change the eligibility criteria for projects to improve compliance with defensible space requirements to make eligible, instead of low-income residents, those residents with socioeconomic characteristics that increase the risk of wildfire or adverse health outcomes, or that inhibit the ability to respond to a wildfire, as specified. For purposes of an advance payment of grant funds, the bill would instead require the grantee to file an accountability report with the department no later than 6 months from the date of receiving the funds and no later than every 6 months thereafter. Existing law requires the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force, established by former Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., to develop a comprehensive implementation strategy to track and ensure the achievement of the goals and key actions identified in the state's "Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan," as provided. Existing law requires, on or before March 1, 2026, and every 5 years thereafter, the task force to update the action plan. This bill would require the task force, on or before June 30, 2025, in consultation with the advisory committee, to develop a strategic action plan to expand the use of prescribed grazing, as provided. The bill would require the task force to consider incorporating prescribed grazing in the January 1, 2026, update to the "Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan." This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 4124.5 of the Public Resources Code proposed by SB 504 to be operative only if this bill and SB 504 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 772, Statutes of 2024.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 7106.) Ordered to the Senate.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5798.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended.
Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate.
In Assembly. Held at Desk.
Ordered to the Assembly.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6116.) Ordered to the Senate.
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended.
From inactive file.
Ordered to third reading.
Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Wicks.
Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Bryan.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Coauthors revised.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1).
August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 19).
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1365.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Ordered to special consent calendar.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1179.) (May 18).
Set for hearing May 18.
May 1 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing May 1.
April 24 hearing postponed by committee.
Set for hearing April 24.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 658.) (April 11).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
Set for hearing April 11.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB675 | HTML |
| 02/16/23 - Introduced | |
| 03/30/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/12/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/18/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/21/23 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/27/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/26/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/06/24 - Enrolled | |
| 09/27/24 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/06/23- Senate Natural Resources and Water | |
| 04/28/23- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/18/23- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/23/23- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/16/23- Assembly Natural Resources | |
| 08/14/23- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 09/05/23- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 06/28/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 07/02/24- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 08/26/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 08/31/24- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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