Amended in Senate February 23, 2016

Amended in Assembly January 26, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1346

Introduced by Assembly Member Gray

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(Principal coauthors: Senators Hertzberg and Hill)

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February 27, 2015

An act to begin insert amend Section 8587.8 of, and to end insert add Section 8570.4 to the Government Code, relating to state begin delete government. end delete begin insert government, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1346, as amended, Gray. begin delete State Emergency Plan. end delete begin insert Office of Emergency Services: State Emergency Plan and statewide earthquake early warning system. end insert

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The

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begin insert (1) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert The end insert California Emergency Services Act requires the Governor to coordinate the State Emergency Plan and any programs necessary for the mitigation of the effects of an emergency in this state, as specified. Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to update the State Emergency Plan, on or before January 1, 2015, to include proposed best practices for local governments and nongovernmental entities to use to mobilize and evacuate people with disabilities, and others with access and functional needs, during an emergency or natural disaster.

This bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to update the State Emergency Plan on or before January 1, 2018, and every 5 years thereafter, and would require the plan to be consistent with specified state climate adaptation strategies.

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(2) Existing law requires the office, in collaboration with the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission and other specified entities, to develop a comprehensive statewide earthquake early warning system in California through a public-private partnership, as specified. Existing law requires the office to identify funding for the system through single or multiple sources of revenue, and requires those sources to exclude the General Fund and to be limited to federal funds, funds from revenue bonds, local funds, and funds from private sources. Under existing law, the requirement that the office develop the system is not operative until funding is identified, and is repealed if funding is not identified by July 1, 2016.

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This bill would discontinue the requirement that the funding sources for the system exclude the General Fund and be limited to federal funds, funds from revenue bonds, local funds, and funds from private sources. The bill would delete the provisions providing for the repeal and the contingent operation of the requirement that the office develop the system. The bill would appropriate $23,100,000 from the General Fund to the office for the purpose of implementing the system.

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This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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Vote:  begin delete majority end delete begin insert ²⁄₃ end insert . Appropriation:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 8570.4 is added to the Government Code,
to read:

8570.4.  

(a) The Office of Emergency Services shall update
the State Emergency Plan on or before January 1, 2018, and every
five years thereafter.

(b) The State Emergency Plan shall be consistent with the
following state climate adaptation strategies:

(1) The Safeguarding California Plan published by the Natural
Resources Agency.

(2) The California Climate Adaptation Planning Guide published
by the Natural Resources Agency and the Office of Emergency
Services.

(3) To the extent applicable, the Internet Web site
www.cal-adapt.org published by the California Energy
Commission.

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begin insert Section 8587.8 of the end insert begin insert Government Code end insert begin insert is amended
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8587.8.  

(a) The Office of Emergency Services, in collaboration
with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the California
Geological Survey, the University of California, the United States
Geological Survey, the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety
Commission, and other stakeholders, shall develop a
comprehensive statewide earthquake early warning system in
California through a public-private partnership, which shall include,
but not be limited to, the following features:

(1) Installation of field sensors.

(2) Improvement of field telemetry.

(3) Construction and testing of central processing and
notification centers.

(4) Establishment of warning notification distribution paths to
the public.

(5) Integration of earthquake early warning education with
general earthquake preparedness efforts.

(b) In consultation with stakeholders, the Office of Emergency
Services shall develop an approval mechanism to review
compliance with earthquake early warning standards as they are
developed. The development of the approval mechanism shall
include input from a broad representation of earthquake early
warning stakeholders. The approval mechanism shall accomplish
all of the following:

(1) Ensure the standards are appropriate.

(2) Determine the degree to which the standards apply to
providers and components of the system.

(3) Determine methods to ensure compliance with the standards.

(4) Determine requirements for participation in the system.

(c) The Office of Emergency Services shall identify funding
for the system described in subdivision (a) through single or
multiple sources of begin delete revenue that shall be limited to federal funds,
funds from revenue bonds, local funds, and funds from private
sources. The Office of Emergency Services shall not identify the
General Fund as a funding source for the purpose of establishing
the system described in subdivision (a), beyond the components
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(d) Subdivisions (a) and (b) shall not become operative until
the Office of Emergency Services identifies funding pursuant to
subdivision (c).

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(e) (1) If funding is not identified pursuant to subdivision (c)
by July 1, 2016, this section is repealed unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2017, deletes or extends
that date.

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(2) The Office of Emergency Services shall file with the
Secretary of State its determination that funding was not identified
pursuant to subdivision (c) by July 1, 2016.

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The sum of twenty-three million one hundred thousand
dollars ($23,100,000) is hereby appropriated from the General
Fund to the Office of Emergency Services for the purpose of
implementing a comprehensive statewide earthquake early warning
system pursuant to Section 8587.8 of the Government Code.

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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 Constitution and shall go into
immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

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In order to protect the public from the continuing threat of loss
of life and property damage due to earthquakes, it is necessary
that this act take effect immediately.

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