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  MARCH 2, 2016
	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   Senators Hill and Hertzberg
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Gray)
    (   Coauthors:   Senators   Allen,
  Anderson,   Beall,   and Cannella 
 ) 
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Dodd,   Gatto,   Hadley,   Kim, 
 Mullin,   Rodriguez,   and Wilk   )


                        FEBRUARY 25, 2015

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 438, as amended, Hill. Earthquake safety: statewide earthquake
early warning system: funding. 
   (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 
    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: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: 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 1.   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.
   SEC. 3.   SEC. 2.   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.