FIRE Amended Legislation
Report Date: 6/5/2007

AB 220

(Bass) Firefighters. (A-06/04/2007  html  pdf)

Status:06/04/2007-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 31). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

Current Location:06/04/2007-A SECOND READING

Calendar Events:06/05/07 1 ASM SECOND READING FILE

 

Summary:

The Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act prescribes various rights of public safety officers, as defined, with regard to representation, discrimination, discipline, and interrogation, as specified. This bill would enact the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act to prescribe various rights of firefighters, defined as any firefighter employed by a public agency , including a firefighter who is a paramedic or emergency medical technician, with specified exceptions. The bill would prescribe rights related to, among others, political activity, interrogation, punitive action, and administrative appeals. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

 

AB 513

(Lieber) PBDE: prohibition. (A-06/04/2007  html  pdf)

Status:06/04/2007-Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading.

Current Location:06/04/2007-A THIRD READING

Calendar Events:06/05/07 29 ASM THIRD READING FILE

 

Summary:

Existing law prohibits a person from manufacturing, processing, as defined, or distributing in commerce a product, or a flame-retarded part of a product, containing more than 1/10 of 1% pentaBDE or octaBDE, except for products containing small quantities of PBDEs that are produced or used for scientific research on the health or environmental effects of PBDEs. This bill would additionally include decaBDE in this prohibition, on and after January 1, 2011, but only with regard to an electronic product , which would be defined as a television, computer monitor, or other electronic product , except as specified, that is manufactured on or after January 1, 2011. This prohibition would become inoperative if and when AB 48 is enacted .

 

AB 525

(De Leon) Homeland security: training centers. (A-06/04/2007  html  pdf)

Status:06/04/2007-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.

Current Location:06/04/2007-S G.O.

Calendar Events:06/26/07 9:30 a.m. - Room 3191 SEN GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION

 

Summary:

Existing law sets forth the duties of the Director of Homeland Security, including the coordination of homeland security activities in the state. This bill would require the director, in conjunction with the Director of the Office of Emergency Services, and other state, local, and nongovernmental entities, as appropriate, to examine the utilization of state and federal funding options for the development of homeland security training centers in the state , as specified .

 

AB 1355

(Houston) Counties: sheriffs. (A-06/04/2007  html  pdf)

Status:06/04/2007-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.

Current Location:06/04/2007-A PUB. S.

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Summary:

Existing law requires the sheriff in every county in the state to arrest and take before the nearest magistrate for examination all persons who attempt to commit or who have committed a public offense. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.

 

SB 261

(Romero) Emergency medical services: The Trauma Care Fund: state regional trauma system. (A-06/04/2007  html  pdf)

Status:06/04/2007-From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) Read second time. Amended. To third reading.

Current Location:06/04/2007-S THIRD READING

Calendar Events:06/06/07 86 SEN THIRD READING FILE

 

Summary:

Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act (EMS act), establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority within the California Health and Human Services Agency to, among other things, provide statewide coordination of county EMS programs, and to administer the Trauma Care Fund. This bill would delete from the criteria for local distribution of those funds consideration of whether the acquisition is demonstrated to be essential for trauma services within a specified hospital and whether coordination or payment of prescribed care and transportation services may be provided as necessary without undue delay. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

 

SB 296

(Dutton) Office of Emergency Services: disaster preparedness. (A-06/04/2007  html  pdf)

Status:06/04/2007-From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) Read second time. Amended. To third reading.

Current Location:06/04/2007-S THIRD READING

Calendar Events:06/06/07 88 SEN THIRD READING FILE

 

Summary:

The California Emergency Services Act authorizes the Office of Emergency Services to include private businesses and nonprofit organizations within its responsibilities to prepare the state for disasters. The act creates the Disaster Resistant Communities Account in the General Fund and authorizes the Director of the Office of Emergency Services, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to expend the money in the account for this purpose. The act requires that any new activity undertaken by the office under these provisions be contingent upon the receipt of donations to the account. This bill would rename the account the Disaster Resistant Communities Fund in the State Treasury and would delete the requirement that any new activity be contingent upon the receipt of donations to the account. It would instead require that these provisions be implemented only to the extent that in-kind contributions or donations are received from private sector, or grant funds are received from the federal government, for these purposes.

 

SB 548

(Hollingsworth) California Emergency Services Act. (A-06/04/2007  html  pdf)

Status:06/04/2007-From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) Read second time. Amended. To third reading.

Current Location:06/04/2007-S THIRD READING

Calendar Events:06/06/07 154 SEN THIRD READING FILE

 

Summary:

(1) California Emergency Services Act establishes the Disaster Response-Emergency Operations Account in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, and continuously appropriates moneys in the account for allocation by the Director of Finance to state agencies for qualifying disaster response operation costs for specified activities . These provisions are repealed as of July 1, 2007. This bill would extend the repeal date of these provisions to January 1, 2013. By extending the existence of a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

 

SB 839

(Calderon) Fireworks. (A-06/04/2007  html  pdf)

Status:06/04/2007-From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) Read second time. Amended. To third reading.

Current Location:06/04/2007-S THIRD READING

Calendar Events:06/06/07 111 SEN THIRD READING FILE

 

Summary:

The State Fireworks Law requires the State Fire Marshal to adopt regulations relating to fireworks as may be necessary for the protection of life and property, and requires the State Fire Marshal to appoint deputies and employees as may be required to carry out the provisions of that law. That law provides that the State Fire Marshal, his or her salaried deputies, or a chief of a fire department, or his or her authorized representatives, a fire protection agency, or any other public agency authorized by statute to enforce the State Fire Marshal' s regulations, may seize any fireworks, as described, and may charge a person whose fireworks are seized with specified costs of transporting, storing, and handling the seized fireworks. That law also makes it unlawful for a person to, among other matters, transport fireworks unless those fireworks have been classified and registered by the State Fire Marshal. This bill would make it unlawful for a person to possess a specified amount of dangerous fireworks, and upon conviction, is guilty of a public offense punishable by a fine or by imprisonment, as specified. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the State Fire Marshal, on or before July 1, 2008, to identify and evaluate specified data relating to fireworks. The bill would require the State Fire Marshal, in conjunction with the Attorney General, to send notices regarding unauthorized shipments of fireworks in California, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.