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SB 289 (Ducheny-D) Seismic mandate: hospitals
Makes various changes to the hospital seismic mandate for general acute care hospitals. Revises and recasts issues related to periodic reporting requirements by hospital operators and provides extensions to the hospital seismic mandate for general acute care hospitals that are reclassified using a regulatory option or have encountered local planning delays.
Vetoed

SB 608 (Alquist-D) Seismic safety: hospitals
Permits the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to grant two separate extensions to a general acute care hospital for a total of five years, under specified circumstances, related to local planning delays, for compliance with existing state seismic safety requirements.
Chapter 623, Statutes of 2010

SB 1205 (Corbett-D) Bay Area Disaster Recovery Planning Council
Establishes the Bay Area Disaster Recovery Planning Council until 1/1/30 to create a long-term regional disaster recovery plan by cooperating with specified stakeholders in the Bay Area.
Vetoed

SB 1258* (Kehoe-D) Emergency services: property insurance surcharge
Imposes a 4.8% surcharge on fire or multi-peril insurance policies to fund state and local emergency response activities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1287* (Ducheny-D) Earthquake disaster relief: housing assistance
Appropriates $900,000 from the Disaster Relief Fund to the Department of Housing and Community Development to award funds for housing low- and moderate-income persons who have been impacted by the 4/4/10 earthquake in Baja California, Mexico.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1406 (Senate Banking, Finance And Insurance Committee) Earthquake insurance
States that existing law is to be construed as allowing an insurer, for up to 60 days after issuing or renewing a policy of residential property insurance, to focus on claims and its resources on services to existing policyholders in the event of an earthquake.
Vetoed

SCR 51 (Corbett-D) Earthquake preparedness
Supports the Earthquake Country Alliance's annual Great California Shakeout and its earthquake education and outreach programs.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 50* (Nava-D) Disaster relief
Provides for backfill of revenue losses to the counties of Kern, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, Orange, and Placer for wildfire disaster relief.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
A similar bill was AB 1662 (Portantino-D), Chapter 447, Statutes of 2010.

AB 54 (Jeffries-R) California Emergency Management Agency
Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, the State Board of Fire Services, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Office of Traffic Safety, the California Conservation Corps, and the Emergency Medical Services Authority to create a working group, by 3/1/10, to prepare a Governor's Reorganization Plan that would transfer the authorities and duties of those departments, offices, and entities to the California Emergency Management Agency.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 157* (Anderson-R) Property tax relief: San Diego
Allows the County of San Diego to extend, by two years, the time period for transferring the base-year value of property substantially damaged or destroyed by the Cedar Fire that began in October 2003.
Chapter 341, Statutes of 2010

AB 280 (Blakeslee-R) California Earthquake Authority: retrofit programs: grants
Authorizes the California Earthquake Authority to establish a grant or loan program to retrofit specified "soft-story" buildings. Soft-story building are those with a ground floor less stable than upper floors, most often due to commercial or parking spaces at the first floor.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 347* (Bass-D) Haiti earthquake relief: tax deduction
Allows an individual or a corporate taxpayer to deduct a charitable contribution made for the relief of victims of the earthquake in Haiti on the taxpayer's 2009 tax return, instead of the 2010 tax return.
Chapter 8, Statutes of 2010

AB 424 (Torres-D) 911 emergency telephone number system
Requires the Office of the Chief Information Officer to develop and implement a public education campaign regarding appropriate and inappropriate uses of the 911 emergency telephone system.
Vetoed

AB 865 (Price-D) Emergencies: communication
Requires the California Emergency Management Agency, in cooperation with the Office of the State Chief Information Officer, to develop and operate a full-time wireless communications system providing the public with emergency information that is accessible by cellular telephone, text pager, or computer.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 928 (Blakeslee-R) Earthquake early warning system
Requires the High-Speed Rail Authority to develop an earthquake early warning system and coordinate development of that system with the California Emergency Management Agency, the California Department of Education, and the Public Utilities Commission. Requires the earthquake early warning system to be designed to protect the lives of high-speed train passengers and schoolchildren, and protect critical infrastructure in this state by providing advanced earthquake warning and by enabling preventive measures seconds before an earthquake.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 1197 (Torrico-D) Public safety: radio communications
Requires the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee to ensure that its recommendations for radio or other technology are compatible with recommendations and standards established by the United States Department of Homeland Security or the Federal Communications Commission, or both. Replaces the Committee with the California Emergency Management Agency as the responsible entity authorized to make recommendations to any other federal, state, regional, or local entities with the responsibility for developing, operating, or monitoring interoperability of the public safety spectrum.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1225 (De La Torre-D) Emergency and disaster response exercises
Requires the Department of Public Health and local public health departments, when conducting emergency or disaster preparedness exercises relating to the outbreak of an infectious disease, to establish a process to identify deficiencies in the preparedness plans and procedures and track implementation of corrective measures.
Vetoed

AB 1662* (Portantino-D) Disaster relief
Adds the wildfires that occurred in the counties of Los Angeles and Monterey in 2009 and the severe winter storms that occurred in the counties of Calaveras, Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Kern, Placer, San Bernardino, San Francisco, and Siskiyou in 2010 to the list of disasters eligible for state reimbursement of local property tax losses applied to storm flood disasters, beneficial homeowners' property tax exemption treatment, and special "carry forward" treatment of excess disaster losses.
Chapter 447, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was AB 50 (Nava-D) which failed passage on the Senate Floor.

AB 1679 (Torres-D) Public Safety Telecommunicators Week
Designates the second full week in April, starting in 2011, as California Public Safety Telecommunicators Week for the purpose of raising awareness of the great importance of 911 service and its role in keeping the public safe.
Vetoed

AB 1690* (Chesbro-D) Disaster relief: Humboldt County
Adds the earthquake that occurred in Humboldt County on 1/9/10, to the list of disasters eligible for full state reimbursement of local property tax losses, beneficial homeowners' property tax exemption treatment, and special "carry forward" treatment of excess disaster losses.
Chapter 449, Statutes of 2010

AB 1755 (Swanson-D) Seismic Safety Finance Act
Adds seismic strengthening improvements that are permanently fixed to residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other real property to the list of improvements that local agencies can finance using "voluntary contractual assessments."
Vetoed

AB 1782 (Harkey-R) Property tax disaster relief
Provides automatic property tax relief following a Governor-declared state of emergency.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 2051 (Tran-R) Emergency management
Allows the California Emergency Management Agency to prepare, in voluntary cooperation with specific local governmental and nongovernmental entities, a specialized plan to mobilize senior citizens and disabled persons during an emergency or natural disaster.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2133 (Niello-R) Geologic hazards: earthquake
Deletes, in existing law, an exemption from the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act for any structure owned and operated by the state that is listed on the California Register of Historical Resources or the National Register of Historic Places, including the California Memorial Stadium, and instead, provides a specific exemption from the Act for the California Memorial Stadium located on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
Chapter 251, Statutes of 2010

AB 2136* (V. Manuel Perez-D) Disaster relief: Imperial County
Adds the earthquake that struck Imperial County on 4/4/10, to the list of disasters eligible for full state reimbursement of local property tax losses, beneficial homeowners' property tax exemption treatment, and special "carry forward" treatment of excess disaster losses.
Chapter 461, Statutes of 2010

AB 2238 (Coto-D) Earthquake Prediction Council
Codifies the existing California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council as an advisory council within the California Emergency Management Agency.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2362 (Skinner-D) Soft-story building seismic retrofits
Provides that when a redevelopment agency assists in seismic retrofit work within a project area, soft story buildings fall within the category of buildings that are other than unreinforced masonry buildings and historic buildings.
Vetoed

AB 2512 (Blumenfield-D) Seismic safety: hospitals
Provides for extensions to interim seismic safety requirements for the Shriner's Children's Hospital in Los Angeles County, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2535 (Blakeslee-R) California Earthquake Authority
Requires the California Earthquake Authority (CEA), upon request, to make available in electronic form nonproprietary materials and documents its Governing Board uses in the determination of whether to open CEA participation to additional insurers who are not currently participating insurers.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2791 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Emergency management
Makes various statutory and technical changes to reflect the merger of the former Office of Emergency Services and the former Office of Homeland Security into the California Emergency Management Agency that took effect January 1, 2009.
Chapter 618, Statutes of 2010

AB 11X6* (Hill-D) Disaster: San Bruno explosion
Adds the explosion and fire that occurred in the County of San Mateo (the San Bruno explosion) on 9/9/10, to the list of disasters eligible for full state reimbursement of local property tax losses, beneficial homeowners' property tax exemption treatment, and special "carry forward" treatment of excess disaster losses.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2009-10, 6th Extraordinary Session
A similar bill was SB 21 X6 (Yee-D) which failed passage on the Senate Third Reading File.

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