BILL NUMBER: AB 2739	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blakeslee

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 8550 of the Government Code, relating to
emergencies.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2739, as introduced, Blakeslee. Emergencies.
   The California Emergency Services Act confers emergency powers on
the Governor and specified state officers and entities to mitigate
the effects of natural, manmade, or war-caused emergencies that
result in conditions of disaster or extreme peril to life and
property.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 8550 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   8550.  The state has long recognized its responsibility to
mitigate the effects of natural, manmade, or war-caused emergencies
 which   that  result in conditions of
disaster or in extreme peril to life, property, and the resources of
the state, and generally to protect the health and safety and
preserve the lives and property of the people of the state. To ensure
that preparations within the state will be adequate to deal with
such emergencies, it is hereby found and declared to be necessary:
   (a) To confer upon the Governor and upon the chief executives and
governing bodies of political subdivisions of this state the
emergency powers provided herein; and to provide for state assistance
in the organization and maintenance of the emergency programs of
such political subdivisions.
   (b) To provide for a state agency to be known and referred to as
the California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA), within the
office of the Governor, and to prescribe the powers and duties of the
secretary of that agency.
   (c) To provide for the assignment of functions to state agencies
to be performed during an emergency and for the coordination and
direction of the emergency actions of such agencies.
   (d) To provide for the rendering of mutual aid by the state
government and all its departments and agencies and by the political
subdivisions of this state in carrying out the purposes of this
chapter.
   (e) To authorize the establishment of such organizations and the
taking of such actions as are necessary and proper to carry out the
provisions of this chapter.
   It is further declared to be the purpose of this chapter and the
policy of this state that all emergency services functions of this
state be coordinated as far as possible with the comparable functions
of its political subdivisions, of the federal government including
its various departments and agencies, of other states, and of private
agencies of every type, to the end that the most effective use may
be made of all manpower, resources, and facilities for dealing with
any emergency that may occur.