Bill Text: CA AB1073 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Emergency services: utility access.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-06-20 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB1073 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1073-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1073	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Torres

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 8585.6 to the Government Code, relating to
emergency services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1073, as amended, Torres. Emergency services: utility access.
   Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services, as
established by the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 2, operative
July 1, 2013, to establish by rule and regulation various classes of
disaster service workers and the scope of the duties of each class.
Existing law requires the office to also adopt rules and regulations
prescribing the manner in which disaster service workers of each
class are to be registered. Existing law authorizes the office to
establish a statewide registry of private businesses and nonprofit
organizations that are interested in donating services, goods, labor,
equipment, resources, or dispensaries or other facilities for
disaster preparedness.
   This bill would require the office to develop,  in
collaboration with the Public Utilities Commission   on
or before January 1, 2015  , a universal insignia that may be
displayed on badges worn by a properly qualified and certified
utility worker or technician that would enable the person to gain
access to a location subject to a disaster or other emergency to
provide vital utility services, as specified.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 8585.6 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   8585.6.  (a) The office shall develop,  in collaboration
with the Public Utilities Commission   on or before
January 1, 2015  , a universal insignia that may be displayed on
badges worn by a properly qualified and certified utility worker or
technician that shall enable the person to gain access to a location
subject to a disaster or other emergency to provide vital utility
services, including, but not limited to, shutting off water mains,
gas mains, or electric power connections, and the suspension or
restoration of utility services.
   (b)  Each private or public utility corporation 
 The office  shall be responsible for determining the
qualification and certification process that would allow a utility
worker or technician to display the insignia provided for in
subdivision (a).