BILL NUMBER: AB 1564	CHAPTERED  10/10/07

	CHAPTER  414
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 10, 2007
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 10, 2007
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 6, 2007
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 3, 2007

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nava
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Richardson)

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2007

   An act to amend Section 179.9 of, and to add Section 179.8 to, the
Government Code, relating to emergency services, and declaring the
urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1564, Nava. Emergency services.
   Existing law ratifies, approves, and sets forth the provisions of
the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, an interstate agreement
that provides for mutual assistance between states in responding to
emergencies and disasters. Under the existing law, the party states
will provide mutual assistance for emergencies and disasters arising
from natural disaster, technological hazard, manmade disaster, civil
emergency aspects of resource shortages, community disorder,
insurgency, or enemy attack. The compact becomes inoperative on March
1, 2007, and as of January 1, 2008, is repealed.
   This bill would prohibit this state from giving or receiving
assistance for any condition resulting from a labor controversy. This
bill would also extend the operation of the compact to March 1,
2012, and would repeal the compact on January 1, 2013.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 179.8 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   179.8.  Notwithstanding the provisions of the Emergency Management
Assistance Compact, as set forth in Section 179.5, the state shall
not deploy any personnel under the compact to render aid to a party
state for any conditions resulting from a labor controversy, and the
state shall not receive aid from a party state for conditions
resulting from a labor controversy.
  SEC. 2.  Section 179.9 of the Government Code is amended to read:
   179.9.  This article shall become inoperative on March 1, 2012,
and, as of January 1, 2013, is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2013, deletes
or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is
repealed.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to extend the operation of the Emergency Management
Assistance Compact, which provides for interstate cooperation in
responding to emergencies and disasters, at the earliest possible
time, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.