AUGUST 2002 LEGISLATIVE REPORT
CALIFORNIA FIRE CHIEF’S FIRE PREVENTION OFFICERS
The following is legislation in the California Legislature being monitored by the FPO Legislative Committee.
For current information or to review any of these bills go to www.leginfo.ca.gov
AB = Assembly Bill SB = Senate Bill
AB 1983 Dickerson
TITLE: Wildland Fuel Reduction
LAST AMEND: 05/22/2002
COMMITTEE: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Enacts the California Fuel Hazard Reduction Act to be administered by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to encourage the development of wildland fuel reduction practices. Authorizes the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to adopt regulations necessary to carry out the act. Requires the director to report annually. Establishes the Fuel Hazard Reduction Fund.
AB 2141 Firebaugh
TITLE: Hazardous Materials
INTRODUCED: 02/20/2002
LAST AMEND: 05/23/2002
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee 08/13/2002
SUMMARY:
Includes in the public participation requirement of the Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act, a site that is the subject to a corrective action order for the cleanup of a release of hazardous waste or constituents issued pursuant to the Hazardous Waste Control Law, a site that is the subject of a enforceable agreement under the act, a site that is subject to a notice under the California Land Environmental Restoration and Reuse Act.
AB 2201 Corbett
TITLE: School Safety: Emergency Manager
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee 50/22/2002
SUMMARY:
Requires School districts to appoint an emergency manager to develop and manage emergency response plans that coordinate with the standardized emergency management systems.
AB 2411 Corbett
TITLE: Building Standards: Local Agencies
COMMITTEE: Assembly Local Government Committee 40/08/2002
SUMMARY:
Authorizes any local agency that has responsibility for the enforcement of state buildings standards to propose for adoption and approval by the commission one or more building standards if specified requirements are met.
AB 2481 Frommer
TITLE: Porter Cologne Water Quality Control Act
LAST AMEND: 08/06/2002
LOCATION: Senate 3ed Reading File 08/14/2002
SUMMARY:
Revises and recasts provisions regulating the storage of hazardous substances in underground storage tanks. Revises the definition of product tight. Deletes the requirement that the tank not be subject to physical or chemical deterioration over the useful life of the tank. Provides procedures to be taken upon finding tanks with certain violations and penalties therefore. Provides requirements for tanks installed on or after a certain date.
AB 2697
ZettelTITLE: Forestry: Firebreaks
INTRODUCED: 02/22/2002
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Makes a legislative declaration that state law should permit the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection, when a county's firebreak standards are greater than the statewide standards, to impose the county's standards on buildings and structures located on state responsibility lands in the county.
AB 2993 Firebaugh
TITLE: Urban Wildland Interface Communities
LAST AMEND: 08/07/2002
COMMITTEE: Senate in 3ed Reading File 08/12/2002
SUMMARY:
Requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to identify incentives or financial relief to landowners to implement fire protection projects in forested areas surrounding urban wildland interface communities.
SB 489 Romero
TITLE: Hazardous Waste of Concern **Amended Version
LAST AMEND: 05/02/2002
COMMITTEE: Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File
SUMMARY:
Relates to the handling and transportation of hazardous wastes of concern. Provides the procedures required when loading, unloading, transferring or transporting such waste. Requires certain disclosure by persons applying for a hazardous waste facilities permit. Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt a list of hazardous wastes of concern which includes certain wastes the department feels require special handling restrictions.
SB 1992 Perata
TITLE: Public Safety: Gas Appliances
LAST AMEND: 06/26/2002
LOCATION: Assembly 2nd Reading File 08/14/2002
SUMMARY:
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to consider whether to propose for adoption and approval by the Building Standards Commission, in the code adoption cycle that begins after 1/1/2003, the requirement that seismic gas shutoff devices or excess flow gas shutoff devices be installed in all or a portion of dwelling units, motels, hotels and lodginghouses.