BILL NUMBER: AB 2232	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Garrick

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 13100 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to the State Fire Marshal.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2232, as introduced, Garrick. Public safety: State Fire
Marshal.
   Existing law establishes the Office of the State Fire Marshal in
the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and requires the
office to be administered by the State Fire Marshal. Under existing
law, the functions of the Office of the State Fire Marshal include
fostering, promoting, and developing ways and means of protecting
life and property against fire. Additionally, the State Fire Marshal
aids in the enforcement of all laws and ordinances, as well as
certain regulations, rules, and building ordinances, relating to
fires or fire prevention and protection.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes 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 13100 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   13100.  (a) The Office of the State Fire Marshal is hereby created
in the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The Office of the
State Fire Marshal shall be administered by the State Fire Marshal,
who shall be a Chief Deputy Director of Forestry and Fire Protection
in accordance with paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 702 of
the Public Resources Code and appointed pursuant to Section 13101 of
this code.
   (b) The Office of the State Fire Marshal and the State Fire
Marshal in the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection succeed to,
and are vested with, all of the powers, duties, responsibilities,
and jurisdiction of the former Office of the State Fire Marshal and
the former State Fire Marshal, as  the case may be 
 applicable  , in the State and Consumer Services Agency.
   (c) Wherever any reference is made in any law to the former Office
of the State Fire Marshal or to the former State Fire Marshal in the
State and Consumer Services Agency pertaining to a power, duty,
responsibility, or jurisdiction transferred to, and vested in, the
Office of the State Fire Marshal or the State Fire Marshal in the
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the reference shall be
deemed to be a reference to, and to mean, the Office of the State
Fire Marshal or the State Fire Marshal in the Department of Forestry
and Fire Protection, as  the case may be  
applicable  .