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 06/29/26 - Enrolled
 03/17/26 - Introduced

 AB-2791 Public resources.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/06/2026 09:00 PM

AB2791:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Assembly Bill

 No. 2791

 CHAPTER 60

 An act to amend Sections 4584, 30327.5, 30519, 30600.6.1, 30605, 30605.1, 30605.2, 30606, 30607.2, 30620, and 30620.2 of, and to add Section 30109.5 to, the Public Resources Code, relating to public resources.

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 July 06, 2026.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 July 06, 2026.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2791, Committee on Natural Resources.
 Public resources.

(1) The Z’berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations, as defined, unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to, and approved by, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The act authorizes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt from some or all of those provisions of the act a person engaging in specified forest management activities, including an exemption, known as the Forest Resilience Exemption, for the harvesting of certain trees for the purpose of reducing the rate of fire spread, duration and intensity, fuel ignitability, or ignition of tree crowns. The act requires certain conditions to be met to qualify for the exemption, including that all trees harvested are marked by, or under the supervision of, a registered professional
 forester before felling operations begin.

This bill would remove the above-described condition to qualify for the Forest Resilience Exemption.

(2) The California Coastal Act of 1976, which is administered by the California Coastal Commission, requires a person wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone to obtain a coastal development permit. The act further provides for the certification of local coastal programs by the commission. The act generally prohibits, after certification of a local coastal program and all implementing actions within the affected area, the commission from exercising its coastal development permit review authority over any new development proposed within the area to which the certified local coastal program, or any portion thereof, applies. The act provides that this prohibition does not apply to development proposed or undertaken within any state
 university or college within the coastal zone. The act defines “state university” to mean the University of California and the California State University.

This bill would make the commission’s authority pursuant to the above-described provision on coastal development permit review applicable only to state universities by removing references to state colleges.

The act also provides for the submission to, and approval by, the commission of state university or college or private university long-range development plans and provides for amendments to those plans.

This bill would make the commission’s authority pursuant to long-range development plans as described above applicable only to state universities or private universities by removing the references to state colleges.

This bill would also define “nonprofit organization” for purposes of
 the act and would make various nonsubstantive and conforming changes.

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 4584 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:

4584.

 Upon determining that this exemption is consistent with the purposes of this chapter, the board may exempt from this chapter, or portions of this chapter, a person engaged in forest management whose activities are limited to any of the following:

(a) The cutting or removal of trees for the purpose of constructing or maintaining a right-of-way for utility lines.

(b) The planting, growing, nurturing, shaping, shearing, removal, or harvest of immature trees for Christmas trees or other ornamental purposes or minor forest products, including fuelwood.

(c) The cutting or removal of dead, dying, or diseased trees of any size.

(d) Site preparation.

(e) Maintenance of drainage facilities and soil stabilization treatments.

(f) Timber operati