Bill Text: CA AB3294 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-24 - Read first time. [AB3294 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB3294-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 3294
Introduced by Assembly Member Petrie-Norris |
February 21, 2020 |
An act to amend Section 179.7 of the Government Code, relating to emergency services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3294, as introduced, Petrie-Norris.
Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
Existing law ratifies, approves, and sets forth the provisions of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, the purpose of which is to provide for mutual assistance between the states that are parties to the compact in managing any emergency or disaster that is duly declared by the governor of the affected state.
Existing law separately requires the state to indemnify and make whole any officer or employee who is a resident of California, or their heirs, if the officer or employee is injured or killed in another state when rendering aid pursuant to the compact, as specified.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the indemnity provision.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 179.7 of the Government Code is amended to read:179.7.
(a) Notwithstanding Article 6 of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, as set forth in Section 179.5, the state shall indemnify and make whole any officer or employee who is a resident of California, or(b) Local government or special district personnel who are officially deployed under
the provisions of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact pursuant to an assignment of the Office of Emergency Services shall be defended by the Attorney General or other legal counsel provided by the state, and shall be indemnified subject to the same conditions and limitations applicable to state employees.