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Bill	Timber harvesting plans: exempt activities.	The Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The act authorizes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt from those provisions of the act a person engaging in specified forest management activities, including, the harvesting of trees, limited to those trees that eliminate the vertical continuity of vegetative fuels and the horizontal continuity of tree crowns, for the purpose of reducing the rate of fire spread, duration and intensity, fuel ignitability, or ignition of tree crowns if the tree harvesting will decrease fuel continuity and increase the quadratic mean diameter of the stand, and the tree harvesting area will not exceed 300 acres. Under existing law, the notice of exemption issued for this exemption, known as the Forest Fire Prevention Exemption, may be authorized only if certain conditions are met, including that only trees less than 18 inches in stump diameter, measured at 8 inches above ground level, may be removed, as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 744	California AB 744 (20132014)	bill	Timber harvesting plans: exempt activities.	enacted	Dahle	8	35	8	2013-02-21	2013-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/10fdc0b0-c1d2-4be9-a81a-604ddf45f4e9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB744	2c4276d42aad8cf4f266178eebd40202bda67ca130129decc1f44763957c45e3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 744 (20132014) — Timber harvesting plans: exempt activities.

The Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The act authorizes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt from those provisions of the act a person engaging in specified forest management activities, including, the harvesting of trees, limited to those trees that eliminate the vertical continuity of vegetative fuels and the horizontal continuity of tree crowns, for the purpose of reducing the rate of fire spread, duration and intensity, fuel ignitability, or ignition of tree crowns if the tree harvesting will decrease fuel continuity and increase the quadratic mean diameter of the stand, and the tree harvesting area will not exceed 300 acres. Under existing law, the notice of exemption issued for this exemption, known as the Forest Fire Prevention Exemption, may be authorized only if certain conditions are met, including that only trees less than 18 inches in stump diameter, measured at 8 inches above ground level, may be removed, as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/06/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/11/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/12/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/08/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB744 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/20/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 744 GORDON Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Supp 3 AB744 Dahle By Nielsen — 26–5 (pass) · upper
• AB 744 DAHLE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dahle — primary (person)
• Gaines — coauthor (person)
• Gordon — author (person)
• Nielsen — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2013-03-04 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2013-03-21 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2013-04-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-02 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1343.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-23 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2013-05-29 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-07-01 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2013-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-12 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Hancock.
• 2013-09-06 From inactive file.
• 2013-09-06 Ordered to second reading.
• 2013-09-06 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-10 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c) . referral-committee
• 2013-09-10 Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2013-09-11 Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 25. Noes 5. Page 2341.)
• 2013-09-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (September 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-09-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-09-12 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-12 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 5. Page 2426.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2013-09-12 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3359.)
• 2013-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 3360.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2013-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 647, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/10fdc0b0-c1d2-4be9-a81a-604ddf45f4e9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).