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CA SB 653

enacted

Wildfire prevention: environmentally sensitive vegetation management.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Existing law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, in accordance with policies established by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, to assist local governments in preventing future high-intensity wildland fires and instituting appropriate fuels management by making its wildland fire prevention and vegetation management expertise available to local governments, as provided. This bill would define an environmentally sensitive vegetation management project to mean vegetation management that reduces catastrophic wildfire risk over the long term while supporting native wildlife and biodiversity. The bill would require a state public entity to consider incorporating specified criteria into its funding guidelines for a grant program that funds environmentally sensitive vegetation management projects.

Introduced
2025-02-20
Status date
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Latest action
2025-10-13 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 778, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Corteseauthor
  • Kalracoauthor
  • Pellerincoauthor
  • Richardsoncoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-20

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

    introduction,reading-1,referral-committee

  2. 2025-02-21

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.

  3. 2025-03-05

    Referred to Com. on RLS.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-03-24

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

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  5. 2025-04-02

    Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

    referral-committee

  6. 2025-04-04

    Set for hearing April 22.

  7. 2025-04-10

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

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  8. 2025-04-23

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 839.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  9. 2025-04-25

    Set for hearing May 5.

  10. 2025-05-05

    May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  11. 2025-05-16

    Set for hearing May 23.

  12. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1208.) (May 23).

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  13. 2025-05-23

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  14. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  15. 2025-05-29

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1338.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  16. 2025-05-29

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  17. 2025-06-05

    Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

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  18. 2025-06-24

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 23).

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  19. 2025-06-25

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  20. 2025-06-26

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  21. 2025-06-26

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5.

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  22. 2025-07-09

    July 9 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  23. 2025-08-29

    Coauthors revised.

  24. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 29).

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  25. 2025-09-02

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  26. 2025-09-03

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 1. Page 2870.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  27. 2025-09-03

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  28. 2025-09-08

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2606.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  29. 2025-09-16

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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  30. 2025-10-13

    Approved by the Governor.

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  31. 2025-10-13

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 778, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/20/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-20Compare
  • 03/24/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-24Compare
  • 04/10/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-04-10Compare
  • 05/23/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-05-23Compare
  • 06/25/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-06-25Compare
  • 09/10/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-10Compare
  • 10/13/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-13Compare
  • SB653Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-04-22 · pass · 5-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Allen: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Hurtado: other
    • Seyarto: other

  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-05-05 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Wahab: yes

  • Do pass as amended

    2025-05-23 · pass · 5-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Caballero: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Dahle: other
    • Seyarto: other

  • 3rd Reading

    2025-05-29 · pass · 36-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Limón: other
    • Niello: other
    • Reyes: other
    • Valladares: other

  • Do pass as amended.

    2025-06-23 · pass · 13-0

    Member-level votes (14)
    • Hoover: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Ellis: other

  • Do pass.

    2025-08-29 · pass · 14-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Ta: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Tangipa: other

  • SB 653 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Pellerin

    2025-09-03 · pass · 71-1

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Gallagher: no
    • Ahrens: other
    • Macedo: other
    • Tangipa: other
    • Patterson: other
    • Castillo: other
    • Ellis: other
    • Jeff Gonzalez: other

  • Unfinished Business SB653 Cortese et al. Concurrence

    2025-09-08 · pass · 37-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Wahab: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Dahle: 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
    • Niello: other
    • Stern: other
    • Valladares: other

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