CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 619Introduced by Assembly Member RansomFebruary 13, 2025 An act to add and repeal Section 14426 of the Public Resources Code, relating to resource conservation, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 619, as introduced, Ransom. California Conservation Corps: training programs: formerly incarcerated individuals: reporting.Existing law establishes the California Conservation Corps in the Natural Resources Agency and requires the corps to implement and administer the conservation corps program. Existing law authorizes the Director of the California Conservation Corps to establish various training and educational program, including, among others, the Education and Employment Reentry Program, within the corps, to provide education and training to formerly incarcerated individuals who successfully served on a California Conservation Camp program crew.This bill would require the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to jointly evaluate the Ventura Training Center and would require the evaluation to include specified components, including, among others, an evaluation of ways to increase the rate of graduated trainees entering the firefighter workforce. The bill would require the departments to submit a report describing the evaluation to certain legislative committees by January 1, 2026, and would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2030.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.Digest Key Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 14426 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:14426. (a) The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall jointly evaluate the Ventura Training Center. The evaluation shall include, but shall not be limited to, an evaluation of all of the following: (1) How to streamline the enrollment of formerly incarcerated individuals into the program after their successful participation in the California Conservation Camp program.(2) Ways to increase the rate of graduated trainees entering the firefighter workforce.(3) The feasibility of establishing one or more centers in other regions of the state.(b) (1) The departments shall prepare a report describing the evaluation conducted pursuant to subdivision (a) and submit the report, by January 1, 2026, to the Senate Committee on Public Safety, the Assembly Committee on Public Safety, the Senate Committee on Organization, and the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management.(2) (A) A report to be submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.(B) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2030.SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to address the shortage of firefighters occurring while there is an increasing number of catastrophic fires in California, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 619Introduced by Assembly Member RansomFebruary 13, 2025 An act to add and repeal Section 14426 of the Public Resources Code, relating to resource conservation, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 619, as introduced, Ransom. California Conservation Corps: training programs: formerly incarcerated individuals: reporting.Existing law establishes the California Conservation Corps in the Natural Resources Agency and requires the corps to implement and administer the conservation corps program. Existing law authorizes the Director of the California Conservation Corps to establish various training and educational program, including, among others, the Education and Employment Reentry Program, within the corps, to provide education and training to formerly incarcerated individuals who successfully served on a California Conservation Camp program crew.This bill would require the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to jointly evaluate the Ventura Training Center and would require the evaluation to include specified components, including, among others, an evaluation of ways to increase the rate of graduated trainees entering the firefighter workforce. The bill would require the departments to submit a report describing the evaluation to certain legislative committees by January 1, 2026, and would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2030.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.Digest Key Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 619
Introduced by Assembly Member RansomFebruary 13, 2025
Introduced by Assembly Member Ransom
February 13, 2025
An act to add and repeal Section 14426 of the Public Resources Code, relating to resource conservation, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 619, as introduced, Ransom. California Conservation Corps: training programs: formerly incarcerated individuals: reporting.
Existing law establishes the California Conservation Corps in the Natural Resources Agency and requires the corps to implement and administer the conservation corps program. Existing law authorizes the Director of the California Conservation Corps to establish various training and educational program, including, among others, the Education and Employment Reentry Program, within the corps, to provide education and training to formerly incarcerated individuals who successfully served on a California Conservation Camp program crew.This bill would require the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to jointly evaluate the Ventura Training Center and would require the evaluation to include specified components, including, among others, an evaluation of ways to increase the rate of graduated trainees entering the firefighter workforce. The bill would require the departments to submit a report describing the evaluation to certain legislative committees by January 1, 2026, and would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2030.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes the California Conservation Corps in the Natural Resources Agency and requires the corps to implement and administer the conservation corps program. Existing law authorizes the Director of the California Conservation Corps to establish various training and educational program, including, among others, the Education and Employment Reentry Program, within the corps, to provide education and training to formerly incarcerated individuals who successfully served on a California Conservation Camp program crew.
This bill would require the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to jointly evaluate the Ventura Training Center and would require the evaluation to include specified components, including, among others, an evaluation of ways to increase the rate of graduated trainees entering the firefighter workforce. The bill would require the departments to submit a report describing the evaluation to certain legislative committees by January 1, 2026, and would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2030.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 14426 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:14426. (a) The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall jointly evaluate the Ventura Training Center. The evaluation shall include, but shall not be limited to, an evaluation of all of the following: (1) How to streamline the enrollment of formerly incarcerated individuals into the program after their successful participation in the California Conservation Camp program.(2) Ways to increase the rate of graduated trainees entering the firefighter workforce.(3) The feasibility of establishing one or more centers in other regions of the state.(b) (1) The departments shall prepare a report describing the evaluation conducted pursuant to subdivision (a) and submit the report, by January 1, 2026, to the Senate Committee on Public Safety, the Assembly Committee on Public Safety, the Senate Committee on Organization, and the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management.(2) (A) A report to be submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.(B) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2030.SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to address the shortage of firefighters occurring while there is an increasing number of catastrophic fires in California, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 14426 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:14426. (a) The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall jointly evaluate the Ventura Training Center. The evaluation shall include, but shall not be limited to, an evaluation of all of the following: (1) How to streamline the enrollment of formerly incarcerated individuals into the program after their successful participation in the California Conservation Camp program.(2) Ways to increase the rate of graduated trainees entering the firefighter workforce.(3) The feasibility of establishing one or more centers in other regions of the state.(b) (1) The departments shall prepare a report describing the evaluation conducted pursuant to subdivision (a) and submit the report, by January 1, 2026, to the Senate Committee on Public Safety, the Assembly Committee on Public Safety, the Senate Committee on Organization, and the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management.(2) (A) A report to be submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.(B) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2030.
SECTION 1. Section 14426 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:
### SECTION 1.
14426. (a) The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall jointly evaluate the Ventura Training Center. The evaluation shall include, but shall not be limited to, an evaluation of all of the following: (1) How to streamline the enrollment of formerly incarcerated individuals into the program after their successful participation in the California Conservation Camp program.(2) Ways to increase the rate of graduated trainees entering the firefighter workforce.(3) The feasibility of establishing one or more centers in other regions of the state.(b) (1) The departments shall prepare a report describing the evaluation conducted pursuant to subdivision (a) and submit the report, by January 1, 2026, to the Senate Committee on Public Safety, the Assembly Committee on Public Safety, the Senate Committee on Organization, and the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management.(2) (A) A report to be submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.(B) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2030.
14426. (a) The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall jointly evaluate the Ventura Training Center. The evaluation shall include, but shall not be limited to, an evaluation of all of the following: (1) How to streamline the enrollment of formerly incarcerated individuals into the program after their successful participation in the California Conservation Camp program.(2) Ways to increase the rate of graduated trainees entering the firefighter workforce.(3) The feasibility of establishing one or more centers in other regions of the state.(b) (1) The departments shall prepare a report describing the evaluation conducted pursuant to subdivision (a) and submit the report, by January 1, 2026, to the Senate Committee on Public Safety, the Assembly Committee on Public Safety, the Senate Committee on Organization, and the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management.(2) (A) A report to be submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.(B) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2030.
14426. (a) The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall jointly evaluate the Ventura Training Center. The evaluation shall include, but shall not be limited to, an evaluation of all of the following: (1) How to streamline the enrollment of formerly incarcerated individuals into the program after their successful participation in the California Conservation Camp program.(2) Ways to increase the rate of graduated trainees entering the firefighter workforce.(3) The feasibility of establishing one or more centers in other regions of the state.(b) (1) The departments shall prepare a report describing the evaluation conducted pursuant to subdivision (a) and submit the report, by January 1, 2026, to the Senate Committee on Public Safety, the Assembly Committee on Public Safety, the Senate Committee on Organization, and the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management.(2) (A) A report to be submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.(B) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2030.
14426. (a) The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall jointly evaluate the Ventura Training Center. The evaluation shall include, but shall not be limited to, an evaluation of all of the following:
(1) How to streamline the enrollment of formerly incarcerated individuals into the program after their successful participation in the California Conservation Camp program.
(2) Ways to increase the rate of graduated trainees entering the firefighter workforce.
(3) The feasibility of establishing one or more centers in other regions of the state.
(b) (1) The departments shall prepare a report describing the evaluation conducted pursuant to subdivision (a) and submit the report, by January 1, 2026, to the Senate Committee on Public Safety, the Assembly Committee on Public Safety, the Senate Committee on Organization, and the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management.
(2) (A) A report to be submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(B) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2030.
SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to address the shortage of firefighters occurring while there is an increasing number of catastrophic fires in California, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.
SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to address the shortage of firefighters occurring while there is an increasing number of catastrophic fires in California, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.
SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
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In order to address the shortage of firefighters occurring while there is an increasing number of catastrophic fires in California, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.