Bill Commons

CA AB 1285

enacted

State Fire Marshal: lithium-ion battery facilities: guidance.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

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Quick answers

Did CA AB 1285 pass?

Yes. CA AB 1285 has been enacted into law. 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

Newest first

  1. 2025-10-11

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 637, Statutes of 2025.

    became-law

  2. 2025-10-11

    Approved by the Governor.

    executive-signature

  3. 2025-09-15

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

    executive-receipt

  4. 2025-09-04

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

    committee-passage

  5. 2025-09-04

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2524.).

    passage,reading-1,reading-3

  6. 2025-09-02

    Ordered to special consent calendar.

  7. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).

    committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable

  8. 2025-08-29

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    reading-1,reading-2,reading-3

  9. 2025-08-18

    In committee: Referred to suspense file.

    referral-committee

  10. 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.

    committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee

  11. 2025-06-18

    Referred to Com. on G.O.

    referral-committee

  12. 2025-06-05

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

    reading-1,referral-committee

  13. 2025-06-04

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2062.)

    passage,reading-1,reading-3

  14. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    reading-1,reading-2,reading-3

  15. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).

    committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable

  16. 2025-04-30

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

    referral-committee

  17. 2025-04-23

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  18. 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

  19. 2025-03-17

    Referred to Com. on E.M.

    referral-committee

  20. 2025-03-03

    Introduced measure version corrected.

    introduction

  21. 2025-02-24

    Read first time.

    reading-1

  22. 2025-02-22

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.

  23. 2025-02-21

    Introduced. To print.

    introduction

Versions

Documents

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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