CA AB 1531

enacted

Office of Emergency Services: comprehensive wildfire mitigation program.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law, the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, authorizes 2 or more public agencies, if authorized by their legislative or other governing bodies, to enter into an agreement to jointly exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as provided. That act requires, among other things, that the agreement state the purpose of agreement or power to be exercised and provide for the method by which the purpose will be accomplished or the manner in which the power will be exercised. Existing law, operative until July 1, 2029, requires the Office of Emergency Services to enter into a joint powers agreement with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to develop and administer a comprehensive wildfire mitigation program to, among other things, encourage cost-effective structure hardening and retrofitting to create fire-resistant homes, businesses, and public buildings. That law requires the joint powers authority to develop eligibility criteria for property owners, community organizations, and local governments that may receive financial assistance under the wildfire mitigation program. This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2026, the Department of Insurance to be added as an ex officio nonvoting member to the California Wildfire Mitigation Program Board created pursuant to the joint powers agreement.

Introduced: 2025-07-10
Status date: —
Latest action: 2025-10-01 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 204, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2025-03-26
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2025-03-27
From printer. May be heard in committee April 26.
2025-03-28
Referred to Coms. on E.M and INS.
referral-committee
2025-04-21
Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1163.)
2025-04-21
(Pending re-refer to Com. on INS.)
referral-committee
2025-04-29
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on INS.
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2025-04-30
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-05-14
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).
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2025-05-15
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-05-23
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1665.)
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2025-05-23
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-04
Referred to Coms. on G.O. and N.R. & W.
referral-committee
2025-06-24
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
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2025-07-10
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 8).
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2025-07-14
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-08-18
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-08-29
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).
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2025-08-29
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-02
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-09-03
From special consent calendar.
2025-09-03
Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-03
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2025-09-04
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-08
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2626.).
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2025-09-08
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-10
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3185.).
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2025-09-22
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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2025-10-01
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-01
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 204, Statutes of 2025.
became-law

Versions

03/26/25 - Introduced — 2025-03-26Compare
07/14/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-07-14Compare
09/03/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-09-03Compare
09/12/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-12Compare
10/01/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-01Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Insurance]
2025-04-28 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Hadwick: yes
- Ransom: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Bains: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Arambula: yes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-30 · pass · 16-0
Member-level votes (17)
- Chen: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Krell: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Berman: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ortega: other
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-05-14 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Fong: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Hart: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Ta: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Arambula: yes
AB 1531 E.M. Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-05-23 · pass · 71-0
Member-level votes (79)
- DeMaio: yes
- Davies: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Soria: yes
- Lee: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ta: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Haney: yes
- Flora: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Addis: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Fong: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Ward: yes
- Hart: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Papan: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Bains: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Krell: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Caloza: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Bryan: other
- Sharp-Collins: other
- Nguyen: other
- Ellis: other
- Schultz: other
- Sanchez: other
- Chen: other
- Wicks: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources and Water] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-06-24 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Jones: yes
- Choi: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Rubio: yes
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-07-08 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Limón: yes
- Allen: yes
- Stern: yes
- Laird: yes
- Grove: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Hurtado: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
Do pass
2025-08-29 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
3rd Reading AB1531 E.M. (Ransom) By Padilla
2025-09-08 · pass · 39-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Wahab: yes
- Niello: yes
- Jones: yes
- Laird: yes
- Choi: yes
- Rubio: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Limón: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Allen: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Grove: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Becker: yes
- Stern: other
AB 1531 Emergency Management Concurrence in Senate Amendments By RANSOM
2025-09-10 · pass · 79-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Addis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Berman: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Hart: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Soria: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Papan: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Davies: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Chen: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Bains: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Lee: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ta: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Macedo: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Ward: yes
- Fong: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Flora: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Tangipa: other

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