BILL NUMBER: AB 2226INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Knight FEBRUARY 18, 2010 An act to amend Section 8588 of the Government Code, relating to emergencies. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2226, as introduced, Knight. Emergencies. The California Emergency Services Act authorizes the Secretary of California Emergency Management to proclaim the existence of a state of emergency under specified conditions. 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 8588 of the Government Code is amended to read: 8588. Whenever conditions exist within any region or regions of the statewhichthat warrant the proclamation by the Governor of a state of emergency and the Governor has not acted under the provisions of Section 8625, by reason of the fact that the Governor has been inaccessible, the Secretary of California Emergency Management may proclaim the existence of a state of emergency in the name of the Governor as to any region or regions of the state. Whenever the Secretary of California Emergency Management has so proclaimed a state of emergency, that action shall be ratified by the Governor as soon as the Governor becomes accessible, and in the event the Governor does not ratify the action, the Governor shall immediately terminate the state of emergency as proclaimed by the Secretary of California Emergency Management.