Amended IN Senate March 18, 2024 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 1088Introduced by Senator Alvarado-GilFebruary 12, 2024An act to add Section 8586.10 to the Government Code, relating to emergency services. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 1088, as amended, Alvarado-Gil. Office of Emergency Services: state matching funds: water system infrastructure improvements.Existing law establishes, within the office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services (OES), under the direction of the Director of Emergency Services. Existing law charges the OES with coordinating various emergency activities within the state. The California Emergency Services Act, contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature, requires the OES to enter into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to develop and administer a comprehensive wildfire mitigation program relating to structure hardening and retrofitting and prescribed fuel modification activities. Existing law authorizes the joint powers authority to establish financial assistance limits and matching funding or other recipient contribution requirements for the program, as provided.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to establish a Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program within the office to work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, and other appropriate state entities to develop a program for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface, or WUI, to improve water system infrastructure, as prescribed.This bill would, contingent on funding being appropriated pursuant to a bond act, as specified, establish the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program within the OES for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface to improve water system infrastructure, as prescribed. The bill would require the OES to work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the office determines to be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Californias rural landscapes and communities have been ground zero for large-scale environmental and economic devastation during the past decades by virtue of the Angora, Caldor, Camp, August Complex, and Dixie fires.(b) Aging water infrastructures, combined with insufficient resources to prepare for adequate wildfire response, have left many rural communities at high risk for future unchecked fire activity.(c) Postfire costs associated with the destruction inflicted upon communities such as Grizzly Flats, Paradise, and Greenville have been in the tens of billions of dollars.(d) Congress has taken affirmative fiscal action by budgeting for funding last year and is poised to repeat that action this year, as evidenced in House Report 117-400, to invest in fire prevention activities in the Tahoe Basin and elsewhere through projects such as water delivery system improvements for expanded water flow and fire hydrant installation.(e) While California is taking the necessary actions to mitigate the intensity and frequency of fire in the rural parts of the state, local governments need state support for necessary water infrastructure investments to prepare for fire suppression capacity. SEC. 2.It is the intent of the Legislature to establish a Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program within the Office of Emergency Services to work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, and other appropriate state entities to develop a program for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface, or WUI, to improve water system infrastructure, including upgrading and upsizing waterlines, installing additional fire hydrants of water systems, and enhancing water system delivery to ensure adequate water flow for fire prevention and suppression activities.SEC. 2. Section 8586.10 is added to the Government Code, immediately following Section 8586.9, to read:8586.10. (a) As used in this section:(1) Office means the Office of Emergency Services.(2) Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program or program means the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program established in subdivision (b).(b) The Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program is hereby established within the office for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface to improve water system infrastructure as follows:(1) Upgrading and upsizing waterlines.(2) Installing additional fire hydrants of water systems.(3) Enhancing water system delivery to ensure adequate water flow for fire prevention and suppression activities.(c) The office shall work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the office determines to be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program.SEC. 3. The operation of this act is contingent upon funding being appropriated by the Legislature to the Office of Emergency Services pursuant to a bond act approved by the voters on or after the statewide general election scheduled for November 5, 2024, including, but not limited to, a climate or natural resources bond, for purposes consistent with the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program authorized in Section 2 of this act.
Amended IN Senate March 18, 2024 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 1088Introduced by Senator Alvarado-GilFebruary 12, 2024An act to add Section 8586.10 to the Government Code, relating to emergency services. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 1088, as amended, Alvarado-Gil. Office of Emergency Services: state matching funds: water system infrastructure improvements.Existing law establishes, within the office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services (OES), under the direction of the Director of Emergency Services. Existing law charges the OES with coordinating various emergency activities within the state. The California Emergency Services Act, contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature, requires the OES to enter into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to develop and administer a comprehensive wildfire mitigation program relating to structure hardening and retrofitting and prescribed fuel modification activities. Existing law authorizes the joint powers authority to establish financial assistance limits and matching funding or other recipient contribution requirements for the program, as provided.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to establish a Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program within the office to work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, and other appropriate state entities to develop a program for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface, or WUI, to improve water system infrastructure, as prescribed.This bill would, contingent on funding being appropriated pursuant to a bond act, as specified, establish the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program within the OES for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface to improve water system infrastructure, as prescribed. The bill would require the OES to work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the office determines to be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO
Amended IN Senate March 18, 2024
Amended IN Senate March 18, 2024
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1088
Introduced by Senator Alvarado-GilFebruary 12, 2024
Introduced by Senator Alvarado-Gil
February 12, 2024
An act to add Section 8586.10 to the Government Code, relating to emergency services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1088, as amended, Alvarado-Gil. Office of Emergency Services: state matching funds: water system infrastructure improvements.
Existing law establishes, within the office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services (OES), under the direction of the Director of Emergency Services. Existing law charges the OES with coordinating various emergency activities within the state. The California Emergency Services Act, contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature, requires the OES to enter into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to develop and administer a comprehensive wildfire mitigation program relating to structure hardening and retrofitting and prescribed fuel modification activities. Existing law authorizes the joint powers authority to establish financial assistance limits and matching funding or other recipient contribution requirements for the program, as provided.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to establish a Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program within the office to work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, and other appropriate state entities to develop a program for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface, or WUI, to improve water system infrastructure, as prescribed.This bill would, contingent on funding being appropriated pursuant to a bond act, as specified, establish the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program within the OES for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface to improve water system infrastructure, as prescribed. The bill would require the OES to work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the office determines to be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program.
Existing law establishes, within the office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services (OES), under the direction of the Director of Emergency Services. Existing law charges the OES with coordinating various emergency activities within the state. The California Emergency Services Act, contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature, requires the OES to enter into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to develop and administer a comprehensive wildfire mitigation program relating to structure hardening and retrofitting and prescribed fuel modification activities. Existing law authorizes the joint powers authority to establish financial assistance limits and matching funding or other recipient contribution requirements for the program, as provided.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to establish a Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program within the office to work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, and other appropriate state entities to develop a program for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface, or WUI, to improve water system infrastructure, as prescribed.
This bill would, contingent on funding being appropriated pursuant to a bond act, as specified, establish the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program within the OES for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface to improve water system infrastructure, as prescribed. The bill would require the OES to work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the office determines to be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Californias rural landscapes and communities have been ground zero for large-scale environmental and economic devastation during the past decades by virtue of the Angora, Caldor, Camp, August Complex, and Dixie fires.(b) Aging water infrastructures, combined with insufficient resources to prepare for adequate wildfire response, have left many rural communities at high risk for future unchecked fire activity.(c) Postfire costs associated with the destruction inflicted upon communities such as Grizzly Flats, Paradise, and Greenville have been in the tens of billions of dollars.(d) Congress has taken affirmative fiscal action by budgeting for funding last year and is poised to repeat that action this year, as evidenced in House Report 117-400, to invest in fire prevention activities in the Tahoe Basin and elsewhere through projects such as water delivery system improvements for expanded water flow and fire hydrant installation.(e) While California is taking the necessary actions to mitigate the intensity and frequency of fire in the rural parts of the state, local governments need state support for necessary water infrastructure investments to prepare for fire suppression capacity. SEC. 2.It is the intent of the Legislature to establish a Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program within the Office of Emergency Services to work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, and other appropriate state entities to develop a program for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface, or WUI, to improve water system infrastructure, including upgrading and upsizing waterlines, installing additional fire hydrants of water systems, and enhancing water system delivery to ensure adequate water flow for fire prevention and suppression activities.SEC. 2. Section 8586.10 is added to the Government Code, immediately following Section 8586.9, to read:8586.10. (a) As used in this section:(1) Office means the Office of Emergency Services.(2) Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program or program means the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program established in subdivision (b).(b) The Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program is hereby established within the office for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface to improve water system infrastructure as follows:(1) Upgrading and upsizing waterlines.(2) Installing additional fire hydrants of water systems.(3) Enhancing water system delivery to ensure adequate water flow for fire prevention and suppression activities.(c) The office shall work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the office determines to be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program.SEC. 3. The operation of this act is contingent upon funding being appropriated by the Legislature to the Office of Emergency Services pursuant to a bond act approved by the voters on or after the statewide general election scheduled for November 5, 2024, including, but not limited to, a climate or natural resources bond, for purposes consistent with the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program authorized in Section 2 of this act.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Californias rural landscapes and communities have been ground zero for large-scale environmental and economic devastation during the past decades by virtue of the Angora, Caldor, Camp, August Complex, and Dixie fires.(b) Aging water infrastructures, combined with insufficient resources to prepare for adequate wildfire response, have left many rural communities at high risk for future unchecked fire activity.(c) Postfire costs associated with the destruction inflicted upon communities such as Grizzly Flats, Paradise, and Greenville have been in the tens of billions of dollars.(d) Congress has taken affirmative fiscal action by budgeting for funding last year and is poised to repeat that action this year, as evidenced in House Report 117-400, to invest in fire prevention activities in the Tahoe Basin and elsewhere through projects such as water delivery system improvements for expanded water flow and fire hydrant installation.(e) While California is taking the necessary actions to mitigate the intensity and frequency of fire in the rural parts of the state, local governments need state support for necessary water infrastructure investments to prepare for fire suppression capacity.
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Californias rural landscapes and communities have been ground zero for large-scale environmental and economic devastation during the past decades by virtue of the Angora, Caldor, Camp, August Complex, and Dixie fires.(b) Aging water infrastructures, combined with insufficient resources to prepare for adequate wildfire response, have left many rural communities at high risk for future unchecked fire activity.(c) Postfire costs associated with the destruction inflicted upon communities such as Grizzly Flats, Paradise, and Greenville have been in the tens of billions of dollars.(d) Congress has taken affirmative fiscal action by budgeting for funding last year and is poised to repeat that action this year, as evidenced in House Report 117-400, to invest in fire prevention activities in the Tahoe Basin and elsewhere through projects such as water delivery system improvements for expanded water flow and fire hydrant installation.(e) While California is taking the necessary actions to mitigate the intensity and frequency of fire in the rural parts of the state, local governments need state support for necessary water infrastructure investments to prepare for fire suppression capacity.
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
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(a) Californias rural landscapes and communities have been ground zero for large-scale environmental and economic devastation during the past decades by virtue of the Angora, Caldor, Camp, August Complex, and Dixie fires.
(b) Aging water infrastructures, combined with insufficient resources to prepare for adequate wildfire response, have left many rural communities at high risk for future unchecked fire activity.
(c) Postfire costs associated with the destruction inflicted upon communities such as Grizzly Flats, Paradise, and Greenville have been in the tens of billions of dollars.
(d) Congress has taken affirmative fiscal action by budgeting for funding last year and is poised to repeat that action this year, as evidenced in House Report 117-400, to invest in fire prevention activities in the Tahoe Basin and elsewhere through projects such as water delivery system improvements for expanded water flow and fire hydrant installation.
(e) While California is taking the necessary actions to mitigate the intensity and frequency of fire in the rural parts of the state, local governments need state support for necessary water infrastructure investments to prepare for fire suppression capacity.
It is the intent of the Legislature to establish a Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program within the Office of Emergency Services to work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, and other appropriate state entities to develop a program for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface, or WUI, to improve water system infrastructure, including upgrading and upsizing waterlines, installing additional fire hydrants of water systems, and enhancing water system delivery to ensure adequate water flow for fire prevention and suppression activities.
SEC. 2. Section 8586.10 is added to the Government Code, immediately following Section 8586.9, to read:8586.10. (a) As used in this section:(1) Office means the Office of Emergency Services.(2) Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program or program means the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program established in subdivision (b).(b) The Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program is hereby established within the office for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface to improve water system infrastructure as follows:(1) Upgrading and upsizing waterlines.(2) Installing additional fire hydrants of water systems.(3) Enhancing water system delivery to ensure adequate water flow for fire prevention and suppression activities.(c) The office shall work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the office determines to be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program.
SEC. 2. Section 8586.10 is added to the Government Code, immediately following Section 8586.9, to read:
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8586.10. (a) As used in this section:(1) Office means the Office of Emergency Services.(2) Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program or program means the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program established in subdivision (b).(b) The Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program is hereby established within the office for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface to improve water system infrastructure as follows:(1) Upgrading and upsizing waterlines.(2) Installing additional fire hydrants of water systems.(3) Enhancing water system delivery to ensure adequate water flow for fire prevention and suppression activities.(c) The office shall work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the office determines to be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program.
8586.10. (a) As used in this section:(1) Office means the Office of Emergency Services.(2) Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program or program means the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program established in subdivision (b).(b) The Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program is hereby established within the office for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface to improve water system infrastructure as follows:(1) Upgrading and upsizing waterlines.(2) Installing additional fire hydrants of water systems.(3) Enhancing water system delivery to ensure adequate water flow for fire prevention and suppression activities.(c) The office shall work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the office determines to be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program.
8586.10. (a) As used in this section:(1) Office means the Office of Emergency Services.(2) Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program or program means the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program established in subdivision (b).(b) The Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program is hereby established within the office for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface to improve water system infrastructure as follows:(1) Upgrading and upsizing waterlines.(2) Installing additional fire hydrants of water systems.(3) Enhancing water system delivery to ensure adequate water flow for fire prevention and suppression activities.(c) The office shall work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the office determines to be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program.
8586.10. (a) As used in this section:
(1) Office means the Office of Emergency Services.
(2) Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program or program means the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program established in subdivision (b).
(b) The Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program is hereby established within the office for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface to improve water system infrastructure as follows:
(1) Upgrading and upsizing waterlines.
(2) Installing additional fire hydrants of water systems.
(3) Enhancing water system delivery to ensure adequate water flow for fire prevention and suppression activities.
(c) The office shall work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the office determines to be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program.
SEC. 3. The operation of this act is contingent upon funding being appropriated by the Legislature to the Office of Emergency Services pursuant to a bond act approved by the voters on or after the statewide general election scheduled for November 5, 2024, including, but not limited to, a climate or natural resources bond, for purposes consistent with the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program authorized in Section 2 of this act.
SEC. 3. The operation of this act is contingent upon funding being appropriated by the Legislature to the Office of Emergency Services pursuant to a bond act approved by the voters on or after the statewide general election scheduled for November 5, 2024, including, but not limited to, a climate or natural resources bond, for purposes consistent with the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program authorized in Section 2 of this act.
SEC. 3. The operation of this act is contingent upon funding being appropriated by the Legislature to the Office of Emergency Services pursuant to a bond act approved by the voters on or after the statewide general election scheduled for November 5, 2024, including, but not limited to, a climate or natural resources bond, for purposes consistent with the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program authorized in Section 2 of this act.
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