California 2017-2018 Regular Session Status: Passed Assembly 1 D cosponsors

AB 3160 — Fire safety.

Last action — From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

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    Introduced
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    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Assembly
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    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill died with 2017-2018 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Assembly” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

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Summary

(1) Existing law requires each planning agency to prepare and the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city containing specified elements, including a housing element and a safety element for the protection of the community from any unreasonable risks associated with, among other things, wildland and urban fires, as prescribed. Existing law requires that upon the next revision of the housing element of the plan on or after January 1, 2014, the safety element be reviewed and updated as necessary to address the risk of fire for land classified as state responsibility areas, as defined, and land classified as very high fire hazard severity zones, as defined. This bill would instead require that the above-described safety element be reviewed and updated as necessary to address that fire risk concurrent with each revision of the housing element of a plan on or after January 1, 2019, and would authorize a local jurisdiction to review and update the safety element upon being classified as a very high fire hazard severity zone without revision of the housing element. (2) The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the State Air Resources Board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for greenhouse gas emissions reduction activities. The Budget Act of 2018 appropriated specified amounts of moneys payable from the fund to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to be used for specified resource management and fire prevention activities. This bill would require that the sum of $2,500,000 of the funds appropriated to the department pursuant to a specified item of the Budget Act of 2018 be made available to the University of California to be used to place science advisors in underserved counties located in, or adjacent to, a state responsibility area, to build capacity to deliver structural hardening, defensible space, forest fire resiliency, and carbon sequestration, in consultation with all interested public and private entities, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to require supplemental reporting on the use and outcomes of those moneys as a condition of release of the funds. (3) Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to adopt regulations implementing minimum fire safety standards related to defensible space that are applicable to state responsibility area lands and lands under the authority of the department, and specifies that these regulations apply to the perimeters and access to all residential, commercial, and industrial building construction within state responsibility areas approved after January 1, 1991. This bill would also require the board to adopt regulations implementing minimum fire safety standards that are applicable to lands classified and designated as very high fire hazard severity zones and would require the regulations to apply to the parameters and access to all residential, commercial, and industrial building construction within lands classified and designated as very high fire hazard severity zones, as defined, after July 1, 2021. The bill would further require the board to, on and after July 1, 2021, periodically update regulations for fuel breaks and greenbelts near communities to provide greater fire safety for the perimeters to all residential, commercial, and industrial building construction within state responsibility areas and lands classified and designated as very high fire hazard severity zones after that date. The bill would require the board, on or before July 1, 2022, to develop criteria and maintain a "Fire Adapted Community" list of local agencies located in a state responsibility area or a very high fire hazard severity zone that meet best practices for local fire planning.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

  2. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  3. Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

  4. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  5. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 2. Page 5165.)

  6. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  7. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 9).

  8. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  9. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  10. Read second time and amended.

  11. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 16).

  12. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

  13. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended.

  14. Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and L. GOV.

  15. From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.

  16. Read first time. To print.

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on · 1 voted No

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Votes

AB 3160 GRAYSON Assembly Third Reading

Passed 58 Yea · 2 Nay · 18 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 412014
Democratic 15000
Republican 2004
Total 582018
% of votes cast 74%3%0%23%
How each member voted (78)
Member Party Vote
Acosta — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Brough — Nay
Kamlager-Dove — Yea
Levine — Yea
Mathis — Not Voting
Nazarian — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Thurmond — Yea
Waldron — Not Voting
Eggman — Yea
Gloria — Yea
Medina — Yea
Gonzalez Fletcher — Yea
Chau — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Burke — Yea
Salas — Yea
Gray — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Rubio — Yea
Harper — Not Voting
Holden — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Kiley — Not Voting
Fong — Not Voting
Low — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Mayes — Not Voting
McCarty — Yea
Melendez — Not Voting
Baker — Yea
Bigelow — Not Voting
Chiu — Yea
Chu — Yea
Chávez — Not Voting
Cooper — Yea
Mullin — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Obernolte — Not Voting
Quirk — Yea
Steinorth — Not Voting
Ting — Yea
Voepel — Not Voting
Weber — Yea
Wood — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Cunningham — Yea
Daly — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Cristina Garcia — Not Voting
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Not Voting
Mark Stone — Yea
Travis Allen — Nay
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Berman, Marc Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Cervantes, Sabrina Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Chen, Phillip Republican Not Voting
Choi, Steven S. Republican Not Voting
Dahle, Megan Republican Not Voting
Flora, Heath Republican Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Not Voting
Lackey, Tom Republican Yea

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Do pass.

Passed 12 Yea · 0 Nay · 5 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 8004
Democratic 3000
Republican 1001
Total 12005
% of votes cast 71%0%0%29%
How each member voted (17)
Member Party Vote
Bigelow — Not Voting
Bloom — Yea
Brough — Not Voting
Nazarian — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Gonzalez Fletcher — Yea
Chau — Yea
Fong — Not Voting
Eggman — Not Voting
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Flora, Heath Republican Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Not Voting

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Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 3002
Republican 1000
Democratic 3000
Total 7002
% of votes cast 78%0%0%22%
How each member voted (9)
Member Party Vote
Bloom — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Voepel — Not Voting
Waldron — Not Voting
Mark Stone — Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Lackey, Tom Republican Yea

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Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government]

Passed 8 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 5002
Republican 1000
Democratic 2000
Total 8002
% of votes cast 80%0%0%20%
How each member voted (10)
Member Party Vote
Acosta — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Melendez — Not Voting
Eggman — Not Voting
Chau — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Flora, Heath Republican Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does AB 3160 do?
(1) Existing law requires each planning agency to prepare and the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city containing specified elements, including a housing element and a safety element for the protection of the community from any unreasonable risks associated with, among other things, wildland and urban fires, as prescribed. Existing law requires that upon the next revision of the housing element of the plan on or after January 1, 2014, the safety element be reviewed and updated as necessary to address the risk of fire for land classified as state responsibility areas, as defined, and land classified as very high fire hazard severity zones, as defined. This bill would instead require that the above-described safety element be reviewed and updated as necessary to address that fire risk concurrent with each revision of the housing element of a plan on or after January 1, 2019, and would authorize a local jurisdiction to review and update the safety element upon being classified as a very high fire hazard severity zone without revision of the housing element. (2) The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the State Air Resources Board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for greenhouse gas emissions reduction activities. The Budget Act of 2018 appropriated specified amounts of moneys payable from the fund to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to be used for specified resource management and fire prevention activities. This bill would require that the sum of $2,500,000 of the funds appropriated to the department pursuant to a specified item of the Budget Act of 2018 be made available to the University of California to be used to place science advisors in underserved counties located in, or adjacent to, a state responsibility area, to build capacity to deliver structural hardening, defensible space, forest fire resiliency, and carbon sequestration, in consultation with all interested public and private entities, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to require supplemental reporting on the use and outcomes of those moneys as a condition of release of the funds. (3) Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to adopt regulations implementing minimum fire safety standards related to defensible space that are applicable to state responsibility area lands and lands under the authority of the department, and specifies that these regulations apply to the perimeters and access to all residential, commercial, and industrial building construction within state responsibility areas approved after January 1, 1991. This bill would also require the board to adopt regulations implementing minimum fire safety standards that are applicable to lands classified and designated as very high fire hazard severity zones and would require the regulations to apply to the parameters and access to all residential, commercial, and industrial building construction within lands classified and designated as very high fire hazard severity zones, as defined, after July 1, 2021. The bill would further require the board to, on and after July 1, 2021, periodically update regulations for fuel breaks and greenbelts near communities to provide greater fire safety for the perimeters to all residential, commercial, and industrial building construction within state responsibility areas and lands classified and designated as very high fire hazard severity zones after that date. The bill would require the board, on or before July 1, 2022, to develop criteria and maintain a "Fire Adapted Community" list of local agencies located in a state responsibility area or a very high fire hazard severity zone that meet best practices for local fire planning.
Who sponsors AB 3160?
AB 3160 is sponsored by Grayson, Timothy S. (Democratic).
What is the current status of AB 3160?
This bill died with 2017-2018 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Assembly” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track AB 3160?
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