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 03/25/26 - Amended Senate
 02/20/26 - Introduced

 SB-1297 Regional wildfire partnerships.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/14/2026 09:00 PM

SB1297:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 14, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 25, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1297

Introduced by Senator Allen
(Principal coauthor: Senator Stern)

February 20, 2026

 An act to add Article 6.1 (commencing with Section 63048.51) to Chapter 2 of Division 1 of Title 6.7 of the Government Code, and to amend Section Sections 4208 and 4208.1 of, and to add Sections 4208.2, 4208.3, and 4208.4 Section 4208.2 to, the Public Resources Code, relating to fire prevention, and making an appropriation therefor.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1297, as amended, Allen.
 Regional Wildfire Mitigation Collaboratives. wildfire partnerships.

Existing law establishes in the Department of Conservation the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program to support regional leadership to build local and regional capacity and develop, prioritize, and implement strategies and projects that create fire adapted communities and landscapes by improving ecosystem health, community wildfire preparedness, and fire resilience. Existing law requires the department, upon appropriation, among other things, to provide block grants to regional entities, as defined, to develop regional strategies and projects that create fire adapted communities and landscapes, as provided. Existing law authorizes regional entities to implement collaborative planning efforts with specified local entities and develop regional priority strategies that develop and support specified
 goals.

This bill would authorize regional entities to form regional wildfire mitigation collaboratives, consisting of specified local government entities, special districts, and tribal governments, and would further authorize these
 collaboratives to take the form of a joint powers authority. The bill would require these collaboratives to form cooperative agreements with specified entities, as provided. The bill would authorize the collaboratives to develop wildfire mitigation plans to implement projects across the region that mitigate against the risk of wildfire, including projects related to, among other things, structure hardening and retrofitting. The bill would require the plans to consider projects that accomplish specified goals, including, among other things, improve the availability and affordability of property insurance in the region. revise and recast the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program. The bill would, among other things, authorize regional entities to (1) implement collaborative planning efforts with insurance companies, private and public utilities, and other private
 and public entities, and (2) develop regional priority strategies that develop and support fire-resistant homes, businesses, and public buildings, as provided. The bill would authorize a public regional entity, or an entity or entities designated by a public regional entity, to organize a regional wildfire partnership, defined as either a partnership between a public regional entity and specified private entities or a joint powers authority, as provided, in order to support the regional priority strategies. The bill would require a regional wildfire partnership to submit an annual report to the Department of Conservation, as provided, and would require the department to make the reports publicly available on its internet website.

Existing law, the Bergeson-Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act, establishes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank) within the Governor’s Office of Business
 and Economic Development and, among other things, authorizes the I-Bank to make loans, issue bonds, and provide financial assistance for various types of projects that qualify as economic development or public development facilities, as provided. 

This bill would authorize the I-Bank, in coordination with the Treasurer and the Department of Conservation, to issue revenue bonds to finance wildfire mitigation plans developed by regional wildfire mitigation collaboratives. regional priority strategies developed by regional wildfire partners