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 04/15/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/18/26 - Introduced

 AB-2075 Forestry: safety requirements: fire equipment: internal combustion engines.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/29/2026 02:00 PM

AB2075:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 29, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 15, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2075

Introduced by Assembly Member Bennett

February 18, 2026

An act to amend Sections 4427, 4428, 4430, 4431, 4442, 4442.5, 4442.6, and 4443 of the Public Resources Code, relating to forestry.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2075, as amended, Bennett.
 Forestry: safety requirements: fire equipment: internal combustion engines.

(1) Under existing law, a person is prohibited from using or operating, on or near specified lands during a time of the year when burning permits are required, a motor engine, boiler, stationary equipment, welding equipment, cutting torches, tarpots, or grinding devices from which a spark, fire, or flame may originate without complying with specified requirements, including the requirement to maintain one serviceable round point shovel and one backpack pump water-type fire extinguisher fully equipped and ready for use at the immediate area during the operation. Existing law prohibits a person, except a member of an emergency crew or except the driver or owner of a service vehicle owned or operated by or for, or operated under contract with, a publicly or privately owned utility,
 as provided, from using or operating any vehicle, machine, tool, or equipment powered by an internal combustion engine operated on hydrocarbon fuels in an industrial operation located on specified land between April 1 and December 1 of any year, or at any other time when ground litter and vegetation will sustain combustion permitting the spread of fire, without providing and maintaining, for firefighting purposes only, suitable and serviceable tools in a fire toolbox in specified amounts, manners, and locations. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is a crime.

This bill would revise and recast those provisions by, among other things, instead requiring a person to maintain at least one backpack pump-type fire extinguisher fully equipped and ready for use, and a sufficient number of serviceable round point shovels so that each person at the operation can be equipped to fight fire, within the operating area, at a point accessible in the event
 of fire. The bill would require these fire tools to be no farther than 25 feet from the point of operation of the powersaw or tool
 motor, engine, boiler, stationary equipment, welding equipment, cutting torches, tarpots, or grinding devices, and unrestricted access for the operator from the point of operation. operator. The bill would provide that these requirements do not apply to a person operating a motorized vehicle to work on, clear, or grade any land in or near specified lands during any time of the year when burning permits are required, and would instead require the person to have in or affixed to the motor vehicle and ready for immediate use one serviceable round point shovel and one fully equipped fire extinguisher. The bill would eliminate the above-described exception from these provisions for a member of an emergency
 crew and the driver and owner a service vehicle owned or operated by or for, or operated under contract with, a publicly or privately owned utility. For these purposes the bill would define a person to mean a natural person, partnership, firm, association, corporation, limited liability company, or other legal entity. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 

This bill would, as applied to timber operations on timberland conducted by a timber operator, require the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to adopt emergency regulations pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act that define (A) the terms “operating area” and “point accessible in the event of a fire” and fire,” (B) the necessary number
 and types of tools needed in the fire toolbox, and (C) develop requirements for the creation of any areas to be cleared around the operation and for the provision of suita