Bill Text: CA AB486 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Disaster preparedness: local government: animal wildfire evacuation plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB486 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB486-Amended.html
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Amended
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Assembly
April 30, 2019 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 486 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Limón |
February 12, 2019 |
An act to add Section 8608.1 to the Government Code, relating to disaster preparedness.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 486, as amended, Limón.
Disaster preparedness: local government: animal wildfire evacuation plan.
Under existing law, the Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with all interested state agencies with designated response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local emergency management agencies, is required to jointly establish by regulation a standardized emergency management system for use by all emergency response agencies. Existing law requires the office to approve and adopt, and incorporate the California Animal Response Emergency System (CARES) program developed under the oversight of the Department of Food and Agriculture into the standardized emergency management system.
This bill, if bill would require a city or county
that requires a kennel license or permit to keep an animal operate a kennel within its jurisdiction, would require an animal owner to require, as a condition for obtaining the permit to kennel license or permit, that the kennel owner create and submit to the city or county an animal wildfire
natural disaster evacuation plan for any animal kennel covered by the license or permit. By imposing a new duty on local government, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
