BILL NUMBER: AB 1346 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE FEBRUARY 23, 2016
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JANUARY 26, 2016
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Gray
( Principal coauthors:
Senators Hertzberg and Hill )
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
An act to amend Section 8587.8 of, and to add Section
8570.4 to the Government Code, relating to state government.
government, making an appropriation therefor, and
declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1346, as amended, Gray. State Emergency Plan.
Office of Emergency Services: State Emergency Plan and
statewide earthquake early warning system.
The
(1) The California Emergency
Services Act requires the Governor to coordinate the State Emergency
Plan and any programs necessary for the mitigation of the effects of
an emergency in this state, as specified. Existing law requires the
Office of Emergency Services to update the State Emergency Plan, on
or before January 1, 2015, to include proposed best practices for
local governments and nongovernmental entities to use to mobilize and
evacuate people with disabilities, and others with access and
functional needs, during an emergency or natural disaster.
This bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to update
the State Emergency Plan on or before January 1, 2018, and every 5
years thereafter, and would require the plan to be consistent with
specified state climate adaptation strategies.
(2) Existing law requires the office, in collaboration with the
Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission and other specified
entities, to develop a comprehensive statewide earthquake early
warning system in California through a public-private partnership, as
specified. Existing law requires the office to identify funding for
the system through single or multiple sources of revenue, and
requires those sources to exclude the General Fund and to be limited
to federal funds, funds from revenue bonds, local funds, and funds
from private sources. Under existing law, the requirement that the
office develop the system is not operative until funding is
identified, and is repealed if funding is not identified by July 1,
2016.
This bill would discontinue the requirement that the funding
sources for the system exclude the General Fund and be limited to
federal funds, funds from revenue bonds, local funds, and funds from
private sources. The bill would delete the provisions providing for
the repeal and the contingent operation of the requirement that the
office develop the system. The bill would appropriate $23,100,000
from the General Fund to the office for the purpose of implementing
the system.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
Vote: majority 2/3 . Appropriation:
no yes . Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 8570.4 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
8570.4. (a) The Office of Emergency Services shall update the
State Emergency Plan on or before January 1, 2018, and every five
years thereafter.
(b) The State Emergency Plan shall be consistent with the
following state climate adaptation strategies:
(1) The Safeguarding California Plan published by the Natural
Resources Agency.
(2) The California Climate Adaptation Planning Guide published by
the Natural Resources Agency and the Office of Emergency Services.
(3) To the extent applicable, the Internet Web site
www.cal-adapt.org published by the California Energy Commission.
SEC. 2. Section 8587.8 of the Government
Code is amended to read:
8587.8. (a) The Office of Emergency Services, in collaboration
with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the California
Geological Survey, the University of California, the United States
Geological Survey, the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission,
and other stakeholders, shall develop a comprehensive statewide
earthquake early warning system in California through a
public-private partnership, which shall include, but not be limited
to, the following features:
(1) Installation of field sensors.
(2) Improvement of field telemetry.
(3) Construction and testing of central processing and
notification centers.
(4) Establishment of warning notification distribution paths to
the public.
(5) Integration of earthquake early warning education with general
earthquake preparedness efforts.
(b) In consultation with stakeholders, the Office of Emergency
Services shall develop an approval mechanism to review compliance
with earthquake early warning standards as they are developed. The
development of the approval mechanism shall include input from a
broad representation of earthquake early warning stakeholders. The
approval mechanism shall accomplish all of the following:
(1) Ensure the standards are appropriate.
(2) Determine the degree to which the standards apply to providers
and components of the system.
(3) Determine methods to ensure compliance with the standards.
(4) Determine requirements for participation in the system.
(c) The Office of Emergency Services shall identify funding for
the system described in subdivision (a) through single or multiple
sources of revenue that shall be limited to federal funds,
funds from revenue bonds, local funds, and funds from private
sources. The Office of Emergency Services shall not identify the
General Fund as a funding source for the purpose of establishing the
system described in subdivision (a), beyond the components or
programs that are currently funded. revenue.
(d) Subdivisions (a) and (b) shall not become operative until the
Office of Emergency Services identifies funding pursuant to
subdivision (c).
(e) (1) If funding is not identified pursuant to subdivision (c)
by July 1, 2016, this section is repealed unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2017, deletes or extends
that date.
(2) The Office of Emergency Services shall file with the Secretary
of State its determination that funding was not identified pursuant
to subdivision (c) by July 1, 2016.
SEC. 3. The sum of twenty-three million one
hundred thousand dollars ($23,100,000) is hereby appropriated from
the General Fund to the Office of Emergency Services for the purpose
of implementing a comprehensive statewide earthquake early warning
system pursuant to Section 8587.8 of the Government Code.
SEC. 4. 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 protect the public from the continuing threat of loss
of life and property damage due to earthquakes, it is necessary that
this act take effect immediately.