republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-361.md

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Bill	Nuclear powerplants.	Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, authorizes local government entities to create disaster councils by ordinance and in turn develop disaster plans specific to their jurisdictions. Existing law, the Radiation Protection Act of 1999, requires local governments to develop and maintain radiological emergency preparedness and response plans to safeguard the public in the emergency planning zone around a nuclear powerplant, and generally makes the Office of Emergency Services responsible for the coordination and integration of all emergency planning programs and response plans created pursuant to the Radiation Protection Act of 1999. The California Emergency Services Act, until July 1, 2019, prescribes a method for funding state and local costs for carrying out these activities that are not reimbursed by federal funds, with the costs borne by utilities operating nuclear powerplants with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts or more.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 361	California AB 361 (20152016)	bill	Nuclear powerplants.	enacted	Achadjian	8	33	10	2015-02-17	2015-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/df89d722-2588-4399-9b9b-b9c6dbce6621	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB361	59114cf1c85bc27a45386fab7289c4ba6733280eff482b8864b5a5268d15786a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 361 (20152016) — Nuclear powerplants.

Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, authorizes local government entities to create disaster councils by ordinance and in turn develop disaster plans specific to their jurisdictions. Existing law, the Radiation Protection Act of 1999, requires local governments to develop and maintain radiological emergency preparedness and response plans to safeguard the public in the emergency planning zone around a nuclear powerplant, and generally makes the Office of Emergency Services responsible for the coordination and integration of all emergency planning programs and response plans created pursuant to the Radiation Protection Act of 1999. The California Emergency Services Act, until July 1, 2019, prescribes a method for funding state and local costs for carrying out these activities that are not reimbursed by federal funds, with the costs borne by utilities operating nuclear powerplants with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts or more.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/29/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/28/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/03/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/01/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB361 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/16/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 361 ACHADJIAN Concurrence - Urgency Added — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB361 Achadjian By Monning Urgency Clause — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Utilities and Commerce] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Energy, Utilities and Communications] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 361 ACHADJIAN Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Achadjian — primary (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Monning — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and U. & C. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2015-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-29 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-05-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1800.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-11 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and E., U., & C. referral-committee
• 2015-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E., U., & C. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2595.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-09-09 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2015-09-11 Action rescinded whereby the bill was re-referred to Com. on U. & C. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2015-09-11 Ordered to the unfinished business file.
• 2015-09-11 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3199.)
• 2015-09-11 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3200.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 399, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/df89d722-2588-4399-9b9b-b9c6dbce6621. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).