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type: "Bill"
title: "County emergency plans: best practices."
description: "Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, among other things, creates the Office of Emergency Services, which is responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services, as specified. Existing law requires the Governor to coordinate the State Emergency Plan and those programs necessary for the mitigation of the effects of an emergency. Existing law requires the governing body of each political subdivision of the state to carry out the provisions of the State Emergency Plan."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 2968"
citation: "California AB 2968 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County emergency plans: best practices."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-02-21"
last_action: "2020-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab375126-c19b-40d5-9d6c-3ca566e98c9c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2968"
source_hash: "7bae92ccb294e65ae738038106f727fbbf0f0177c6a72c6e6042727e55f4d277"
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 2968 (20192020) — County emergency plans: best practices.
Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, among other things, creates the Office of Emergency Services, which is responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services, as specified. Existing law requires the Governor to coordinate the State Emergency Plan and those programs necessary for the mitigation of the effects of an emergency. Existing law requires the governing body of each political subdivision of the state to carry out the provisions of the State Emergency Plan.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/21/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2968&version=20190AB296899INT)
2. **09/29/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2968&version=20190AB296897CHP)
3. **AB2968** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2968)
4. **08/31/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2968&version=20190AB296898ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **160** (pass) · upper
- AB 2968 Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading — **780** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **200** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **180** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB2968 — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Rodriguez — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2020-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2020-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2020-03-05** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-06-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4774.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2020-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4380.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2020-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2020-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 257, Statutes of 2020.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab375126-c19b-40d5-9d6c-3ca566e98c9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).