BILL NUMBER: AB 450	CHAPTERED  09/29/06

	CHAPTER  604
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 29, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 29, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 28, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 23, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 25, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 23, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 9, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 2, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Yee and Jerome Horton
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Aghazarian, Levine, Mountjoy, and
Plescia)

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2005

   An act to add Section 8608 to the Government Code, relating to
disaster preparedness.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 450, Yee  Standardized emergency management system: animals.
   Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services, in
coordination with all interested state agencies with designated
response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local
emergency management agencies, to jointly establish by regulation a
standardized emergency management system for use by all emergency
response agencies, to include specified components.
   This bill would require the office to approve and adopt, and
incorporate the California Animal Response Emergency System program
into the standardized emergency management system. The bill would
require the office and the Department of Food and Agriculture, and
other interested parties, to enter into a memorandum of understanding
to incorporate the CARES program into their emergency planning.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 8608 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   8608.   (a) The Office of Emergency Services shall approve and
adopt, and incorporate the California Animal Response Emergency
System (CARES) program developed under the oversight of the
Department of Food and Agriculture into the standardized emergency
management system established pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section
8607.
   (b) No later than January 31, 2007, the Department of Food and
Agriculture shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the
Office of Emergency Services and other interested parties to
incorporate the CARES program into their emergency planning.