Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services, by December 1, 1993, in coordination with all interested state agencies with designated response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local emergency management agencies, to jointly establish by regulation a standardized emergency management system for use by all emergency response agencies.
Existing law also requires the Office of Emergency Services to develop a comprehensive emergency response plan for short-term earthquake predictions and requires the plan to include a public warning system.
This bill would require the State Fire Marshal, all local fire departments and districts, and every city, county, and city and county to cooperatively develop a telephone system that would provide evacuation orders and instructions to residents and businesses within an area subject to a pending danger. By increasing the duties of local officials, 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, including the creation of a State Mandates Claims Fund to pay the costs of mandates that do not exceed $1,000,000 statewide and other procedures for claims whose statewide costs exceed $1,000,000.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 these statutory provisions.