Bill Text: CA AB824 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Fire prevention activities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB824 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB824-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 824	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

    An act to amend Section 13520 of the Water Code, relating
to water.   An act to amend Section 4137 of the Public
Resources Code, relating to fire protection. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 824, as amended, Gatto.  Recycled water: recycling
criteria.   Fire prevention activities.  
   Existing law requires the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to
classify all lands within the state, without regard to any
classification of lands made by or for any federal agency or purpose,
for the purpose of determining areas in which the financial
responsibility of preventing and suppressing fires is primarily the
responsibility of the state.  
   Existing law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire
Protection to provide an annual report to the Legislature detailing
the department's fire prevention activities, as described. Existing
law requires the report to include specified data and information.
 
   This bill would, for purposes of this report, describe "fire
prevention activities" to include coordination and cooperation with
the federal government. The bill would require the report to include
a map of the areas of coordination between the department and the
federal government, as provided.  
   Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act,
requires the State Department of Public Health to establish uniform
statewide recycling criteria for each varying type of use of recycled
water if the use involves the protection of public health. The act
defines recycling criteria to mean the levels of constituents of
recycled water, and the means for assurance of reliability under the
design concept that will result in recycled water that is safe for
the uses to be made.  
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
definition. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 4137 of the   Public
Resources Code   is amended to read: 
   4137.  (a) For purposes of this section, "fire prevention
activities" include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
   (1) Fire prevention education.
   (2) Hazardous fuel reduction and vegetation management.
   (3) Fire investigation.
   (4) Civil cost recovery.
   (5) Forest and fire law enforcement.
   (6) Fire prevention engineering.
   (7) Prefire planning.
   (8) Risk analysis.
   (9) Volunteer programs and partnerships. 
   (10) Coordination and cooperation with the federal government.

   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the year-round
staffing and the extension of the workweek that has been provided to
the department pursuant to memorandums of understanding with the
state will result in significant increases in the department's
current level of fire prevention activities. It is also the intent of
the Legislature that the budgetary augmentations for year-round
staffing not reduce the reimbursements that the department receives
from contracts with local governments for the department to provide
local fire protection and emergency services pursuant to Section
4144, commonly referred to as "Amador agreements."
   (c) On or before January 10 of each year, the department shall
provide a report to the Legislature, including the budget and fiscal
committees of the Assembly and the Senate, in accordance with Section
9795 of the Government Code, detailing the department's fire
prevention activities, including the increased activities described
in subdivision (b). The report shall display the fire prevention
activities of the previous fiscal year, as well as the information
from previous reports for purposes of a comparison of data. The
report shall include all of the following:
   (1) Fire prevention activities performed by the department on
lands designated as state responsibility areas, and by counties,
where, pursuant to a contract with the department, a county has
agreed to provide fire protection services in state responsibility
areas within county boundaries on behalf of the department. The fire
prevention activities included in the report pursuant to this
paragraph shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

   (A) The number of hours of fire prevention education performed.
   (B) The number of defensible space inspections conducted,
including statewide totals and totals for each region.
   (C) The number of citations issued for noncompliance with Section
4291.
   (D) The number of acres treated by mechanical fuel reduction.
   (E) The number of acres treated by prescribed burns.
   (F) Any other data or qualitative information deemed necessary by
the department in order to provide the Legislature with a clear and
accurate accounting of fire prevention activities, particularly with
regard to variations from one year to the next. 
   (G) A map of the areas of coordination between the department and
the federal government, particularly in areas of high fire hazard
severity or in wildlife-urban interface areas. 
   (2) The fire prevention performance measures described in
subparagraphs (A) to  (F),   (G), 
inclusive, of paragraph (1) shall be reported for each region
annually, including activities performed from December 15 to April
15, inclusive.
   (3) Projected fire prevention activities for the following fiscal
year.
   (4) Information on each of the "Amador  contracts"
  agreements"  described in subdivision (b),
including an annual update on the number of those  contracts
  agreements  and reimbursements received from the
 contracts   agreements  that are in
effect. 
  SECTION 1.    Section 13520 of the Water Code is
amended to read:
   13520.  As used in this article "recycling criteria" are the
levels of constituents of recycled water, and the means for assurance
of reliability under the design concept that will result in recycled
water that is safe from the standpoint of public health, for the
uses to be made of the recycled water.