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Bill	Forest resource management.	(1) Existing law, with certain exceptions, makes any person who negligently or in violation of the law sets a fire, or who fails or refuses to correct a fire hazard prohibited by law, liable for the fire suppression costs and for the costs of providing rescue or emergency medical services, and provides for collection of the charge. Under existing law, public agencies participating in fire suppression, rescue, or emergency medical services may bring a civil action to recover costs incurred by those agencies.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1492	California AB 1492 (20112012)	bill appropriation	Forest resource management.	enacted	Committee on Budget	5	25	5	2012-01-10	2012-09-11	openstates	ocd-bill/a7e2683d-281f-415c-b1d7-bbfc0613712b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1492	d155d5ed2c366a65bce1ca4b105f199d5d2340d673fe0203ff4923c3236175e5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1492 (20112012) — Forest resource management.

(1) Existing law, with certain exceptions, makes any person who negligently or in violation of the law sets a fire, or who fails or refuses to correct a fire hazard prohibited by law, liable for the fire suppression costs and for the costs of providing rescue or emergency medical services, and provides for collection of the charge. Under existing law, public agencies participating in fire suppression, rescue, or emergency medical services may bring a civil action to recover costs incurred by those agencies.

Version chain

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

1. 01/10/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/07/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/11/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1492 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/05/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1492 BUDGET Concurrence - Urgency Added By BLUMENFIELD — 52–21 (fail) · lower
• AB 1492 BUDGET Concurrence - Urgency Added By BLUMENFIELD — 54–20 (pass) · lower
• AB 1492 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD — 47–23 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1492 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) Urgency Clause — 27–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Budget — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-01-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-01-11 From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
• 2012-02-09 Referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee
• 2012-03-19 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 46. Noes 24. Page 4011.)
• 2012-03-19 Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 46. Noes 24. Page 4011.)
• 2012-03-19 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2012-03-19 Ordered to second reading.
• 2012-03-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-03-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 23. Page 4096.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-03-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-04-19 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2012-06-07 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
• 2012-08-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-09-01 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 5120.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2012-09-01 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6822.)
• 2012-09-01 Assembly refused to concur in Senate amendments. (Ayes 52. Noes 21. Page 6823.) committee-failure
• 2012-09-01 Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Chesbro.
• 2012-09-01 Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 52. Noes 19. Page 6826.)
• 2012-09-01 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 20. Page 6827.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:15 a.m.
• 2012-09-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 289, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a7e2683d-281f-415c-b1d7-bbfc0613712b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).