BILL NUMBER: AB 2384	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 6, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 15, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gallagher
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Maienschein   and Mathis   ) 
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Fuller
  ) 

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 8587.6 to the Government Code, relating to
terrorist activity.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2384, as amended, Gallagher. Terrorist activity.
   Under existing law, terrorist activity is generally punishable
under laws proscribing criminal conduct, including laws proscribing
train wrecking, false reporting of bombs, improper possession or
transport of explosives and hazardous materials, and possession or
use of weapons of mass destruction, assault, and others.
   Existing law also creates the Office of Emergency Services in the
office of the Governor, with specified powers and duties relative to
coordinating emergency  services.   services,
including the coordination of the State Emergency Plan, as defined,
and those programs necessary for the mitigation of the effects of an
emergency in the state. 
   This bill would require the Office of Emergency Services, 
if it creates a strategic plan or updates an existing strategic
plan,   in the first update of the State Emergency Plan
after January 1, 2017,  to develop a plan to enhance the public'
s knowledge about how to identify and report terrorist 
activity in the strategic plan or strategic plan update. 
 activity. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 8587.6 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   8587.6.   If the office creates a strategic plan, or
updates an existing strategic plan,   In the first
update of the State Emergency Plan after January 1, 2017,  the
office shall, in the  strategic plan or strategic plan
update,   State Emergency Plan,  develop a plan to
enhance the public's knowledge about how to identify and report
terrorist activity.