CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2681Introduced by Assembly Member BloomFebruary 18, 2022 An act relating to crowd safety. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2681, as introduced, Bloom. The California Concert and Festival Crowd Safety Act.Existing law provides that everyone is responsible, not only for the result of their willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person.Existing law provides that when 2 or more persons assemble together to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act in a violent, boisterous, or tumultuous manner, such assembly is an unlawful assembly. Existing law requires that where any number of persons, whether armed or not, are unlawfully or riotously assembled, that the sheriff of the county and their deputies, the officials governing the town or city, or any of them, must go among the persons assembled, or as near to them as possible, and command them, in the name of the people of the state, immediately to disperse.Existing law requires a swap meet conducted on the premises or property of a state or local governmental entity that has or expects to have an average daily attendance of 10,000 or more persons to provide the governmental entity that owns the property upon which the swap meet is being held, among other things, a plan for operations, including security, crowd control, and emergency medical response.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would establish minimum crowd control safety standards for concerts and festivals throughout the state.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure to include provisions that would enact minimum crowd control safety standards for concerts and festivals throughout the state, to be known as the California Concert and Festival Crowd Safety Act, in order to improve public health and safety at concerts and festival events by implementing best practices, including, but not limited to: using crowd science; risk modeling and risk analysis for crowd management; crowd modeling for events; crowd counting; crowd monitoring; crowd simulations; queueing systems; site design; utilization of event ingress and egress analysis, including the use of Design, Information, Management and Ingress, Circulation, Egress (DIM-ICE) Risk Models; and anticipating emergency situations and responses.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2681Introduced by Assembly Member BloomFebruary 18, 2022 An act relating to crowd safety. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2681, as introduced, Bloom. The California Concert and Festival Crowd Safety Act.Existing law provides that everyone is responsible, not only for the result of their willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person.Existing law provides that when 2 or more persons assemble together to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act in a violent, boisterous, or tumultuous manner, such assembly is an unlawful assembly. Existing law requires that where any number of persons, whether armed or not, are unlawfully or riotously assembled, that the sheriff of the county and their deputies, the officials governing the town or city, or any of them, must go among the persons assembled, or as near to them as possible, and command them, in the name of the people of the state, immediately to disperse.Existing law requires a swap meet conducted on the premises or property of a state or local governmental entity that has or expects to have an average daily attendance of 10,000 or more persons to provide the governmental entity that owns the property upon which the swap meet is being held, among other things, a plan for operations, including security, crowd control, and emergency medical response.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would establish minimum crowd control safety standards for concerts and festivals throughout the state.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2681
Introduced by Assembly Member BloomFebruary 18, 2022
Introduced by Assembly Member Bloom
February 18, 2022
An act relating to crowd safety.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2681, as introduced, Bloom. The California Concert and Festival Crowd Safety Act.
Existing law provides that everyone is responsible, not only for the result of their willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person.Existing law provides that when 2 or more persons assemble together to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act in a violent, boisterous, or tumultuous manner, such assembly is an unlawful assembly. Existing law requires that where any number of persons, whether armed or not, are unlawfully or riotously assembled, that the sheriff of the county and their deputies, the officials governing the town or city, or any of them, must go among the persons assembled, or as near to them as possible, and command them, in the name of the people of the state, immediately to disperse.Existing law requires a swap meet conducted on the premises or property of a state or local governmental entity that has or expects to have an average daily attendance of 10,000 or more persons to provide the governmental entity that owns the property upon which the swap meet is being held, among other things, a plan for operations, including security, crowd control, and emergency medical response.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would establish minimum crowd control safety standards for concerts and festivals throughout the state.
Existing law provides that everyone is responsible, not only for the result of their willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person.
Existing law provides that when 2 or more persons assemble together to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act in a violent, boisterous, or tumultuous manner, such assembly is an unlawful assembly. Existing law requires that where any number of persons, whether armed or not, are unlawfully or riotously assembled, that the sheriff of the county and their deputies, the officials governing the town or city, or any of them, must go among the persons assembled, or as near to them as possible, and command them, in the name of the people of the state, immediately to disperse.
Existing law requires a swap meet conducted on the premises or property of a state or local governmental entity that has or expects to have an average daily attendance of 10,000 or more persons to provide the governmental entity that owns the property upon which the swap meet is being held, among other things, a plan for operations, including security, crowd control, and emergency medical response.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would establish minimum crowd control safety standards for concerts and festivals throughout the state.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure to include provisions that would enact minimum crowd control safety standards for concerts and festivals throughout the state, to be known as the California Concert and Festival Crowd Safety Act, in order to improve public health and safety at concerts and festival events by implementing best practices, including, but not limited to: using crowd science; risk modeling and risk analysis for crowd management; crowd modeling for events; crowd counting; crowd monitoring; crowd simulations; queueing systems; site design; utilization of event ingress and egress analysis, including the use of Design, Information, Management and Ingress, Circulation, Egress (DIM-ICE) Risk Models; and anticipating emergency situations and responses.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure to include provisions that would enact minimum crowd control safety standards for concerts and festivals throughout the state, to be known as the California Concert and Festival Crowd Safety Act, in order to improve public health and safety at concerts and festival events by implementing best practices, including, but not limited to: using crowd science; risk modeling and risk analysis for crowd management; crowd modeling for events; crowd counting; crowd monitoring; crowd simulations; queueing systems; site design; utilization of event ingress and egress analysis, including the use of Design, Information, Management and Ingress, Circulation, Egress (DIM-ICE) Risk Models; and anticipating emergency situations and responses.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure to include provisions that would enact minimum crowd control safety standards for concerts and festivals throughout the state, to be known as the California Concert and Festival Crowd Safety Act, in order to improve public health and safety at concerts and festival events by implementing best practices, including, but not limited to: using crowd science; risk modeling and risk analysis for crowd management; crowd modeling for events; crowd counting; crowd monitoring; crowd simulations; queueing systems; site design; utilization of event ingress and egress analysis, including the use of Design, Information, Management and Ingress, Circulation, Egress (DIM-ICE) Risk Models; and anticipating emergency situations and responses.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure to include provisions that would enact minimum crowd control safety standards for concerts and festivals throughout the state, to be known as the California Concert and Festival Crowd Safety Act, in order to improve public health and safety at concerts and festival events by implementing best practices, including, but not limited to: using crowd science; risk modeling and risk analysis for crowd management; crowd modeling for events; crowd counting; crowd monitoring; crowd simulations; queueing systems; site design; utilization of event ingress and egress analysis, including the use of Design, Information, Management and Ingress, Circulation, Egress (DIM-ICE) Risk Models; and anticipating emergency situations and responses.
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