Bill Text: CA AB2594 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Emergency services: mutual aid: gap analysis.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2594 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2594-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2594
| Introduced by Committee on Emergency Management (Assembly Members Rodriguez (Chair), Megan Dahle (Vice Chair), Arambula, Calderon, Wendy Carrillo, and Waldron) |
February 14, 2024 |
An act to add Section 8589.55 to the Government Code, relating to emergency services, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2594, as introduced, Committee on Emergency Management.
Emergency services: mutual aid: gap analysis.
Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, establishes the Office of Emergency Services within the Governor’s office under the supervision of the Director of Emergency Services and makes the office responsible for the state’s emergency and disaster response services. The office serves as the State Disaster Council for the purposes of the California Disaster and Civil Defense Master Mutual Aid Agreement. Existing law authorizes state agencies to provide mutual aid, including personnel, equipment, and other available resources, to assist political subdivisions during a local emergency or in accordance with mutual aid agreements or at the direction of the Governor.
This bill would require the office to prepare a gap analysis of the state’s mutual aid systems on a biennial basis, beginning on January 1, 2025, as prescribed. The bill would
require the office to prepare and submit to specified legislative committees a report on a gap analysis in accordance with the bill no later than February 1, 2025, and biennially thereafter by February 1 of subsequent odd-numbered years.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Digest Key
Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 8589.55 is added to the Government Code, to read:8589.55.
(a) The office shall prepare a gap analysis of the state’s mutual aid systems on a biennial basis, beginning on January 1, 2025.(b) (1) The gap analysis shall be based on, among other things, an analysis of the firefighting, law enforcement, emergency medical services, mass care, shelter, and hospital surge capacity required to respond to two simultaneous major disasters occurring in California.
(2) At a minimum, the gap analysis shall do all of the following:
(A) Use a disaster scenario of two simultaneous major incidents, such as a major earthquake in an urban area and a wildfire siege that
would result in the evacuation of thousands of people.
(B) Estimate response requirements for the state to fully respond to the disaster events.
(C) Measure baseline preparedness of the emergency management resources and capabilities maintained at the state level and by local jurisdictions, mutual aid partners, nongovernmental resources, and private sector partners.
(D) Develop and implement strategies to reduce or eliminate response capability shortfalls.
(E) Establish target priority areas where improvements to resource levels and capabilities are most needed.
(F) Evaluate and apply lessons learned from local, state, national, and international disasters.
(c) The office shall prepare and submit a report on a gap analysis in accordance with this section to the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review, the Senate Committee on Governmental Organization, the Assembly Committee on Budget, and the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management no later than February 1, 2025, and, notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, biennially thereafter by February 1 of subsequent odd-numbered years.
SEC. 2.
This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to prevent delay in preparations for simultaneous disasters, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.
