Bill Text: CA AB1566 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Office of Emergency Services: written threat assessment and federal homeland security grant program report.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Failed) 2022-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1566 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB1566-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1566
| Introduced by Committee on Emergency Management |
March 03, 2021 |
An act to add Section 8589.5.1 to the Government Code, relating to emergency services, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1566, as introduced, Committee on Emergency Management.
Office of Emergency Services: written threat assessment and federal homeland security grant program report.
Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, establishes the Office of Emergency Services (OES) within the office of the Governor, and sets forth its powers and duties relating to addressing natural, technological, or manmade disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters to people and property.
This bill would require OES to deliver, by January 15, 2022, and annually thereafter, a written threat assessment and a state’s federal homeland security grant program report, as described, to specified committees of the Legislature.
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 8589.5.1 is added to the Government Code, to read:8589.5.1.
(a) The office shall deliver, by January 15, 2022, and annually thereafter, a written threat assessment and state’s federal homeland security grant program report to the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management, Assembly Committee on Budget, Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review, and Senate Committee on Governmental Organization.(b) The written threat assessment shall include both of the following:
(1) A threat assessment of the risks posed to the state by foreign terrorist organizations, domestic terrorism, and targeted violence against houses of worship, schools, workplaces, festivals, shopping spaces, and other mass gatherings.
(2) A summary of the State Threat Assessment Center’s counterterrorism efforts and its ability to detect, prevent, protect against, and mitigate the threats that violent extremist groups pose.
(c) The state’s federal homeland security grant program report shall include all of the following:
(1) Overall funding priorities and the methodology used to determine these priorities.
(2) A description of how investment priorities are determined.
(3) A full description of projects funded during the current year and the three prior fiscal years to state entities, tribes, and local communities.
(4) The extent to which equity metrics were
used in awarding projects.
(5) The extent to which local operational areas or emergency managers were involved in developing funding priorities.
(d) The information required in subdivision (c) shall include, but shall not be limited to, all of the following federal grant programs:
(1) State Homeland Security Grant Program.
(2) Urban Area Security Initiative Program.
(3) Operation Stonegarden.
(4) Emergency Management Performance Grant (Section 762 of Title 6 of the United States Code).
(5) Nonprofit Security Grant Program (Section 609a of Title 6 of the United
States Code).
(6) Transit Security Grant Program.
(7) Port Security Grant Program.
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 ensure, as soon as possible and due to the ongoing threat of catastrophic wildfires, earthquakes, floods, and other hazards, federal homeland security grant funds are being spent wisely to mitigate the risks of both intentional and natural disasters, it is necessary that this act go into effect immediately.
