republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-2791.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Emergency Management Agency."
description: "Existing law creates the California Emergency Management Agency and requires it to perform a variety of duties with respect to specified emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response activities in the state. Prior to the creation of the California Emergency Management Agency, these activities were the responsibility of the Governor's Office of Emergency Services and the Office of Homeland Security. The Budget Act of 2003 eliminated the Office of Criminal Justice Planning, and its responsibilities for administering a variety of planning, training, education, and crime suppression and mitigation programs ultimately were assigned to the Office of Emergency Services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2791"
citation: "California AB 2791 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Emergency Management Agency."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Governmental Organization"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2010-03-17"
last_action: "2010-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/487fbda9-9817-4adc-87af-d995cbbb750f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2791"
source_hash: "cae00887c4939c2c49027a5d5202b73f3cd20c4ccf8efb022f42cec13c4ae69a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2791 (20092010) — California Emergency Management Agency.

Existing law creates the California Emergency Management Agency and requires it to perform a variety of duties with respect to specified emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response activities in the state. Prior to the creation of the California Emergency Management Agency, these activities were the responsibility of the Governor's Office of Emergency Services and the Office of Homeland Security. The Budget Act of 2003 eliminated the Office of Criminal Justice Planning, and its responsibilities for administering a variety of planning, training, education, and crime suppression and mitigation programs ultimately were assigned to the Office of Emergency Services.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **03/17/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2791&version=20090AB279199INT)
2. **08/20/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2791&version=20090AB279198AMD)
3. **09/30/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2791&version=20090AB279196CHP)
4. **AB2791** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2791)
5. **09/15/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2791&version=20090AB279197ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2791 G.O. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By COTO — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2791 G.O. Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2791 Committee on G.O. (Coto) By Price — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Governmental Organization — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2010-03-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-03-18** From printer. May be heard in committee April 17.
- **2010-03-25** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-19** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-20** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-28** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 0. Page 5344.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-06-10** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-30** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-02** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** From Consent Calendar.
- **2010-08-05** Ordered to third reading.
- **2010-08-20** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-20** (Corrected September 13.)
- **2010-08-20** (Corrected September 14.)
- **2010-08-23** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4835.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-25** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6644.)
- **2010-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6715.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-09-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **2010-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 618, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/487fbda9-9817-4adc-87af-d995cbbb750f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).