CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 713Introduced by Assembly Member SolacheFebruary 14, 2025 An act relating to emergency services, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 713, as introduced, Solache. California Disaster Assistance Act: financial assistance.Existing law, the California Disaster Assistance Act, authorizes the Director of Emergency Services to provide financial assistance to state agencies for expenditures incurred performing extraordinary emergency measures and to local agencies for their personnel costs, equipment costs, and the cost of supplies and materials used during disaster response activities, incurred as a result of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, subject to specified criteria. The act also authorizes an eligible private nonprofit organization, if a state of emergency is proclaimed, to receive state assistance for distribution of supplies and other disaster or emergency assistance activities resulting in extraordinary cost.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to small business disaster relief, including establishing an employee disaster relief program.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.Digest Key Vote: 2/3 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 enact legislation relating to small business disaster relief, including establishing an employee disaster relief program. SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances facing the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura due to extreme wildfires beginning in January 2025 that have resulted in the urgent need for small business recovery and small business employee relief in those counties impacted by the wildfires.SEC. 3. 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:To ensure that the State of California is able to meet the immediate needs of small businesses and small business employees impacted by the 2025 wildfires, in the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 713Introduced by Assembly Member SolacheFebruary 14, 2025 An act relating to emergency services, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 713, as introduced, Solache. California Disaster Assistance Act: financial assistance.Existing law, the California Disaster Assistance Act, authorizes the Director of Emergency Services to provide financial assistance to state agencies for expenditures incurred performing extraordinary emergency measures and to local agencies for their personnel costs, equipment costs, and the cost of supplies and materials used during disaster response activities, incurred as a result of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, subject to specified criteria. The act also authorizes an eligible private nonprofit organization, if a state of emergency is proclaimed, to receive state assistance for distribution of supplies and other disaster or emergency assistance activities resulting in extraordinary cost.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to small business disaster relief, including establishing an employee disaster relief program.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.Digest Key Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 713
Introduced by Assembly Member SolacheFebruary 14, 2025
Introduced by Assembly Member Solache
February 14, 2025
An act relating to emergency services, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 713, as introduced, Solache. California Disaster Assistance Act: financial assistance.
Existing law, the California Disaster Assistance Act, authorizes the Director of Emergency Services to provide financial assistance to state agencies for expenditures incurred performing extraordinary emergency measures and to local agencies for their personnel costs, equipment costs, and the cost of supplies and materials used during disaster response activities, incurred as a result of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, subject to specified criteria. The act also authorizes an eligible private nonprofit organization, if a state of emergency is proclaimed, to receive state assistance for distribution of supplies and other disaster or emergency assistance activities resulting in extraordinary cost.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to small business disaster relief, including establishing an employee disaster relief program.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, the California Disaster Assistance Act, authorizes the Director of Emergency Services to provide financial assistance to state agencies for expenditures incurred performing extraordinary emergency measures and to local agencies for their personnel costs, equipment costs, and the cost of supplies and materials used during disaster response activities, incurred as a result of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, subject to specified criteria. The act also authorizes an eligible private nonprofit organization, if a state of emergency is proclaimed, to receive state assistance for distribution of supplies and other disaster or emergency assistance activities resulting in extraordinary cost.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to small business disaster relief, including establishing an employee disaster relief program.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura.
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. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to small business disaster relief, including establishing an employee disaster relief program. SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances facing the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura due to extreme wildfires beginning in January 2025 that have resulted in the urgent need for small business recovery and small business employee relief in those counties impacted by the wildfires.SEC. 3. 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:To ensure that the State of California is able to meet the immediate needs of small businesses and small business employees impacted by the 2025 wildfires, in the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura, 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. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to small business disaster relief, including establishing an employee disaster relief program.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to small business disaster relief, including establishing an employee disaster relief program.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to small business disaster relief, including establishing an employee disaster relief program.
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SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances facing the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura due to extreme wildfires beginning in January 2025 that have resulted in the urgent need for small business recovery and small business employee relief in those counties impacted by the wildfires.
SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances facing the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura due to extreme wildfires beginning in January 2025 that have resulted in the urgent need for small business recovery and small business employee relief in those counties impacted by the wildfires.
SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances facing the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura due to extreme wildfires beginning in January 2025 that have resulted in the urgent need for small business recovery and small business employee relief in those counties impacted by the wildfires.
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SEC. 3. 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:To ensure that the State of California is able to meet the immediate needs of small businesses and small business employees impacted by the 2025 wildfires, in the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.
SEC. 3. 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:To ensure that the State of California is able to meet the immediate needs of small businesses and small business employees impacted by the 2025 wildfires, in the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.
SEC. 3. 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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To ensure that the State of California is able to meet the immediate needs of small businesses and small business employees impacted by the 2025 wildfires, in the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.