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Bill	Fire safety.	(1) Existing law requires a local agency to designate, by ordinance, very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction within 120 days of receiving recommendations from the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection and exempts a local agency, as defined, from that requirement if ordinances of the local agency, adopted on or before December 31, 1992, impose standards that are equivalent to, or more restrictive than, specified state standards. Existing law authorizes a local agency, at its discretion, to exclude from specified requirements governing fire risk reduction an area identified as a very high fire hazard severity zone by the director within the jurisdiction of the local agency, following a specified finding supported by substantial evidence that those requirements are not necessary for effective fire protection within the area.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2911	California AB 2911 (20172018)	bill	Fire safety.	enacted	Friedman	10	33	10	2018-02-16	2018-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/6b3f1900-0a02-44c6-bccc-e1157d7f7808	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2911	4995186b62a1c70dcf510f35cda6d64cae65fc3d32649511a3896b09618fa1e7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2911 (20172018) — Fire safety.

(1) Existing law requires a local agency to designate, by ordinance, very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction within 120 days of receiving recommendations from the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection and exempts a local agency, as defined, from that requirement if ordinances of the local agency, adopted on or before December 31, 1992, impose standards that are equivalent to, or more restrictive than, specified state standards. Existing law authorizes a local agency, at its discretion, to exclude from specified requirements governing fire risk reduction an area identified as a very high fire hazard severity zone by the director within the jurisdiction of the local agency, following a specified finding supported by substantial evidence that those requirements are not necessary for effective fire protection within the area.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/18/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/06/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/21/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB2911 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/05/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2911 FRIEDMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 61–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2911 FRIEDMAN Assembly Third Reading — 56–16 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2911 Friedman By Cannella — 29–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Friedman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-03-22 Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2018-04-09 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
• 2018-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2018-04-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-18 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2018-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-05-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 16. Page 5485.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-13 Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2018-06-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-07-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 5971.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 15.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2018-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 641, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6b3f1900-0a02-44c6-bccc-e1157d7f7808. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).