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 03/26/25 - Introduced

 AB-1530 California Disaster Assistance Act.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 05/24/2025 04:00 AM

AB1530:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 23, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1530

Introduced by Committee on Emergency Management (Assembly Members Ransom (Chair), Hadwick (Vice Chair), Bains, Calderon, and DeMaio)

March 26, 2025

 An act to amend Sections 8680.4, 8682.9, 8685, 8687.7, and 8692 of, and to add Section 8680.10 to, 8687.7 and 8692 of the Government Code, relating to emergency services. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1530, as amended, Committee on Emergency Management.
 California Disaster Assistance Act.

Existing law, the California Disaster Assistance Act, authorizes the Director of Emergency Services to allocate certain funds to meet the cost of a project, defined as the repair, restoration, or replacement of real property of a local agency used for essential government services that are damaged or destroyed by a disaster, subject to specified conditions. as defined.

This bill would also authorize those funds to be used for unmet needs identified by a local agency that may be immediately required to help individuals and community-based organizations quickly recover from a disaster, and would make related and conforming changes.

Existing law requires the director to adopt regulations as necessary to govern the administration of the act in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.

This bill would instead require the director to issue guidelines to govern the administration of the act.

Existing law authorizes the Office of Emergency Services to establish a model process to assist a community in recovering from an emergency proclaimed by the Governor that includes, among other information, measures to encourage the participation of nongovernmental organizations in the community recovery process to supplement recovery activities undertaken by federal or local agencies.

This bill would instead require the office to establish that model process, and would require the model process to also include measures to encourage the participation of private nonprofit organizations and how they may be eligible to receive state assistance for distribution of supplies and other disaster or emergency assistance activities resulting in extraordinary cost. 

Existing law, if a state of emergency is proclaimed, authorizes an eligible private nonprofit organization to receive state
 assistance for distribution of supplies and other disaster or emergency assistance activities resulting in extraordinary cost subject to specified eligibility and other requirements. Existing law requires the office to adopt regulations to implement those provisions. 

This bill would instead require the office to issue guidelines to implement those provisions.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.Section 8680.4 of the Government Code is amended to read:

8680.4.“Project” means the repair or restoration, or both, other than normal maintenance, or the replacement of, real property of a local agency used for essential governmental services, including, but not limited to, buildings, levees, flood control works, channels, irrigation works, streets, roads, bridges, highways, and other public works, that are damaged or destroyed by a disaster and any other unmet needs as identified by a local agency. “Project” also includes those activities and expenses allowed under subdivisions (a), (c), (d), and (e) of Section 8685. Except as provided in Section 8686.3, the completion of all or part of a project prior to application for funds pursuant to this chapter shall not disqualify the project or any part
 thereof.

SEC. 2.Section 8680.10 is added to the Government Code, to read:

8680.10.“Unmet needs” means assistance that may be immediately required to help individuals and community-based organizations to quickly recover from a disaster.

SEC. 3.Section 8682.9 of the Government Code is amended to read:

8682.9.The director shall issue guidelines, as necessary, to govern the administration of the disaster assi