Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, establishes the Office of Emergency Services and vests the office with responsibility for the state’s emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or manmade disasters and emergencies, as specified. The act also prescribes a process for the declaration of a local emergency and permits a local emergency to be proclaimed only by the governing body of a city or county or by an official designated by ordinance adopted by that governing body. Existing law requires the governing body to review the need for continuing the local emergency at least once every 30 days until the governing body terminates the local emergency.

This bill would instead require review of a local emergency by the governing body, as described above, to occur at least once every 60 days.

This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 8630 of the Government Code proposed by SB 531 to be operative only if this bill and SB 531 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.