CA AB 1285
enactedState Fire Marshal: lithium-ion battery facilities: guidance.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 1285 pass?
Yes. CA AB 1285 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-11. Latest recorded action (2025-10-11): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 637, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 1285 about?
Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to encourage the adoption of fire prevention measures by means of education, engineering, and enforcement and to prepare or cause to be prepared for dissemination information relating to the subject of fire prevention and extinguishment. This bill would require the State Fire Marshal, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services, to develop fire prevention, response, and recovery measures for utility grade lithium-ion battery storage facilities, as specified.
Who sponsors CA AB 1285?
Committee on Emergency Management is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1285.
Description
Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to encourage the adoption of fire prevention measures by means of education, engineering, and enforcement and to prepare or cause to be prepared for dissemination information relating to the subject of fire prevention and extinguishment. This bill would require the State Fire Marshal, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services, to develop fire prevention, response, and recovery measures for utility grade lithium-ion battery storage facilities, as specified.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-21
- Latest action
- 2025-10-11 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 637, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Committee on Emergency Managementauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-02-21
Introduced. To print.
introduction
2025-02-22
From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
2025-02-24
Read first time.
reading-1
2025-03-03
Introduced measure version corrected.
introduction
2025-03-17
Referred to Com. on E.M.
referral-committee
2025-04-08
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-04-23
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-04-30
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-06-04
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2062.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-06-05
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-18
Referred to Com. on G.O.
referral-committee
2025-07-08
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 8). 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.
2025-09-04
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2524.).
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2025-09-04
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
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2025-09-15
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
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2025-10-11
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-11
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 637, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-07 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Bennett: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Bains: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Ransom: yes
Do pass.
2025-05-23 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Sanchez: other
AB 1285 Emergency Management Assembly Third Reading By RANSOM
2025-06-04 · pass · 79-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Haney: yes
- Addis: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Davies: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Flora: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Ortega: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ta: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Berman: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Bains: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Lee: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ward: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Fong: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Hart: yes
- Papan: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Solache: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Chen: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Soria: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-07-08 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Jones: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Padilla: 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
Special Consent AB1285 E.M.
2025-09-04 · pass · 39-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Stern: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Laird: yes
- Limón: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Choi: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Allen: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Niello: yes
- Grove: yes
- Jones: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Strickland: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Becker: yes
- Reyes: other
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