Bill Text: CA SB438 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Earthquake safety: statewide earthquake early warning program and system.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-5)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 803, Statutes of 2016. [SB438 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB438-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 438	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 22, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 29, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 3, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 6, 2015

INTRODUCED BY    Senator   Hill 
 Senators   Hill   and Hertzberg 
    (   Principal coauthor:   Assembly Member
  Gray   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2015

   An act  to amend Section 8587.8 of the Government Code, 
relating to earthquake  safety.   safety, and
making an appropriation therefor   . 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 438, as amended, Hill. Earthquake  safety. 
 safety: statewide earthquake early warning system: funding.
 
    Existing 
    (1)     Existing  law creates, as an
independent unit within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing
Agency, the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission, and provides
that the commission is responsible for certain duties related to
earthquake hazard mitigation, including, among others, helping to
coordinate the earthquake safety activities of government at all
levels.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to work with
the Administration through the fall 2015 recess in order to
establish a California Earthquake Safety Board by July 1, 2016. 
   (2) Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services, in
collaboration with the commission and other specified entities, to
develop a comprehensive statewide earthquake early warning system in
California through a public-private partnership, as specified.
Existing law requires the office to identify funding for the system
through single or multiple sources of revenue, and requires those
sources to exclude the General Fund and to be limited to federal
funds, funds from revenue bonds, local funds, and funds from private
sources. Under existing law, the requirement that the office develop
the system is not operative until funding is identified, and is
repealed if funding is not identified by July 1, 2016.  
   This bill would discontinue the requirement that the funding
sources for the system exclude the General Fund and be limited to
federal funds, funds from revenue bonds, local funds, and funds from
private sources. The bill would delete the provisions providing for
the repeal and the contingent operation of the requirement that the
office develop the system. The bill would appropriate $23,100,000
from the General Fund to the office for the purpose of implementing
the system. 
   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
 no  yes  . Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares that mitigation
against earthquake damage must be addressed in the immediate term and
that it intends to work with the Administration through the fall
2015 recess in order to establish a California Earthquake Safety
Board by July 1, 2016.
   SEC. 2.    Section 8587.8 of the  
Government Code   is amended to read: 
   8587.8.  (a) The Office of Emergency Services, in collaboration
with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the California
Geological Survey, the University of California, the United States
Geological Survey, the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission,
and other stakeholders, shall develop a comprehensive statewide
earthquake early warning system in California through a
public-private partnership, which shall include, but not be limited
to, the following features:
   (1) Installation of field sensors.
   (2) Improvement of field telemetry.
   (3) Construction and testing of central processing and
notification centers.
   (4) Establishment of warning notification distribution paths to
the public.
   (5) Integration of earthquake early warning education with general
earthquake preparedness efforts.
   (b) In consultation with stakeholders, the Office of Emergency
Services shall develop an approval mechanism to review compliance
with earthquake early warning standards as they are developed. The
development of the approval mechanism shall include input from a
broad representation of earthquake early warning stakeholders. The
approval mechanism shall accomplish all of the following:
   (1) Ensure the standards are appropriate.
   (2) Determine the degree to which the standards apply to providers
and components of the system.
   (3) Determine methods to ensure compliance with the standards.
   (4) Determine requirements for participation in the system.
   (c) The Office of Emergency Services shall identify funding for
the system described in subdivision (a) through single or multiple
sources of  revenue that shall be limited to federal funds,
funds from revenue bonds, local funds, and funds from private
sources. The Office of Emergency Services shall not identify the
General Fund as a funding source for the purpose of establishing the
system described in subdivision (a), beyond the components or
programs that are currently funded.   revenue. 

   (d) Subdivisions (a) and (b) shall not become operative until the
Office of Emergency Services identifies funding pursuant to
subdivision (c).  
   (e) (1) If funding is not identified pursuant to subdivision (c)
by July 1, 2016, this section is repealed unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2017, deletes or extends
that date.  
   (2) The Office of Emergency Services shall file with the Secretary
of State its determination that funding was not identified pursuant
to subdivision (c) by July 1, 2016. 
   SEC. 3.    The sum of twenty-three million one
hundred thousand dollars ($23,100,000) is hereby appropriated from
the General Fund to the Office of Emergency Services for the purpose
of implementing a comprehensive statewide earthquake early warning
system pursuant to Section 8587.8 of the Government Code.