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 |Add To My Favorites |Track Bill | Version: 07/02/26 - Amended Senate
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 03/16/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/10/26 - Introduced

 AB-1795 Smoke Damage Recovery Act.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/02/2026 09:00 PM

AB1795:v93#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 July 02, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 18, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 27, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 16, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 07, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 16, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1795

Introduced by Assembly Member Gipson

February 10, 2026

An act to add Chapter 6.12 (commencing with Section 25405) to Division 20 of, and to add Chapter 7.5 (commencing with Section 105435) to Part 5 of Division 103 of, the Health and Safety Code, and to add Sections 2060.1, 2060.2, 14048, and 15009.2 to the Insurance Code, relating to smoke damage, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1795, as amended, Gipson.
 Smoke Damage Recovery Act.

(1) Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials management regulatory program, known as the unified program. Existing law requires the Office of the State Fire Marshal to develop and make available on its internet website a Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Safety Building Standards Compliance training intended for use in the training of local building officials, builders, and fire service personnel, as specified. Existing law authorizes the Office of the State Fire Marshal to allow certification of contractors who conduct defensible space, home hardening, fuel reduction, roadside clearance, and other contracting activities for wildlife resiliency efforts and who have completed specified training programs.

This bill, the Smoke Damage Recovery
 Act, would require the California Environmental Protection Agency, Agency (CalEPA), on or before June 30, 2027, to develop health-based standards and requirements for minimum sampling, testing, and chemical screening levels for residential properties that have sustained smoke damage as a result of a wildfire, as defined. The bill would additionally authorize the California Environmental Protection Agency CalEPA to impose additional sampling, testing, or chemical screening requirements pertaining to a specific wildfire.

This bill would require the California Environmental Protection Agency,
 CalEPA,
 on or before January 1, 2028, and in consultation with state and local agencies, to establish training and certification requirements for a person who inspects, evaluates, samples, tests, analyzes, remediates, or restores residential properties that have sustained smoke damage as a result of a wildfire. The bill would require the California Environmental Protection Agency CalEPA to promulgate regulations to implement, administer, and enforce the training and certification requirements, establish rules for noncompliance, and determine which governmental entity or entities shall have jurisdiction over the different categories of persons who will be subject to the requirements. The bill would require the regulations to establish the fees that will be required for the certifications, and limit the fees to the
 amount sufficient to cover the costs of administering and enforcing these requirements. The bill would establish the Wildfire Remediation and Restoration Certification and Training Fund in the State Treasury, require fees collected pursuant to these provisions to be deposited into the fund, and make these funds available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for use in administering the training and certification requirements.

(2) Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including fire and residential property insurance. Existing law specifies the measure of indemnity under an open fire insurance policy that requires payment of actual cash value or replacement cost. If there is a covered loss relating to a state of emergency, existing law requires additional living expense coverage to be for a period of no less than 24 months from the inception of the loss.

This bill would prohibit an
 insurer