Bill Text: CA SB1205 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Fire protection services: inspections: compliance reporting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 854, Statutes of 2018. [SB1205 Detail]

Download: California-2017-SB1205-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  June 20, 2018

Amended  IN  Assembly  June 07, 2018

Amended  IN  Senate  May 01, 2018

Amended  IN  Senate  April 16, 2018

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1205

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Introduced by Senator Hill

February 15, 2018

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An act to add Section 13146.4 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to fire protection.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1205, as amended, Hill. Fire protection services: inspections: compliance reporting.

Existing law requires the chief of any city or county fire department or district providing fire protection services and his or her authorized representatives to inspect every building used as a public or private school within his or her jurisdiction, for the purpose of enforcing specified building standards, not less than once each year, as provided. Existing law requires every city or county fire department or district providing fire protection services that is required to enforce specified building standards to annually inspect all structures certain structures, including hotels, motels, lodging houses, and apartment houses, for compliance with building standards, as provided.

This bill would require every city or county fire department department, city and county fire department, or district required to perform the above-described annual inspections to report annually to its respective city council or county board of supervisors, as the case may be, administering authority, as defined, on its the department’s, or district’s, compliance with the above-described inspection requirements, as provided. The bill would require the administering authority to acknowledge receipt of the report in a resolution or a similar formal document. To the extent this bill would expand the responsibility of a local agency, the bill would create 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: YES  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 13146.4 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

13146.4.

 (a) Every city or county fire department department, city and county fire department, or district required to perform an annual inspection pursuant to Sections 13146.2 and 13146.3 shall report annually to its respective city council or county board of supervisors, as the case may be, administering authority on its compliance with Sections 13146.2 and 13146.3.

(b) The reporting report made pursuant to subdivision (a) shall occur during the period of time used by the respective city or county to discuss the annual city or county budget. when the administering authority discusses its annual budget, or at another time determined by the administering authority.

(c) The administering authority shall acknowledge receipt of the report made pursuant to subdivision (a) in a resolution or a similar formal document.

(d) For purposes of this section, “administering authority” means a city council, county board of supervisors, or district board, as the case may be.

SEC. 2.

 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.