CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill No. 2612

Introduced by Assembly Member Bigelow

February 15, 2018

An act to amend Section 8550 of the Government Code, relating to state government.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2612, as introduced, Bigelow. Office of Emergency Services.
The California Emergency Services Act, among other things, establishes the Office of Emergency Services for the purpose of mitigating the effects of natural, manmade, or war-caused emergencies and makes findings and declarations relating to ensuring that preparation within the state will be adequate to deal with those emergencies.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 8550 of the Government Code is amended to read:

8550.
 The state has long recognized its responsibility to mitigate the effects of natural, manmade, or war-caused emergencies that result in conditions of disaster or in extreme peril to life, property, and the resources of the state, and generally to protect the health and safety and preserve the lives and property of the people of the state. To ensure that preparations within the state will be adequate sufficient to deal with such those emergencies, it is hereby found and declared to be necessary:
(a) To confer upon the Governor and upon the chief executives and governing bodies of political subdivisions of this the state the emergency powers provided herein; and to provide for state assistance in the organization and maintenance of the emergency programs of such those political subdivisions.
(b) To provide for a state office to be known and referred to as the Office of Emergency Services, within the office of the Governor, and to prescribe the powers and duties of the director of that office. the Office of Emergency Services.
(c) To provide for the assignment of functions to state entities to be performed during an emergency and for the coordination and direction of the emergency actions of those entities.
(d) To provide for the rendering of mutual aid by the state government and all its departments and agencies and by the political subdivisions of this the state in carrying out the purposes of this chapter.
(e) To authorize the establishment of such organizations and the taking of such actions as are necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
It is further declared to be the purpose of this chapter and the policy of this the state that all emergency services functions of this the state be coordinated as far as possible with the comparable functions of its political subdivisions, of the federal government, including its various departments and agencies, of other states, and of private agencies of every type, to the end that the most effective use may be made of all manpower, resources, and facilities for dealing with any emergency that may occur.