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Bill	Fire prevention: wildfire risk: defensible space: ember-resistant zones.	Existing law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to identify areas in the state as very high fire hazard severity zones based on specified criteria and the severity of the fire hazard. Existing law requires a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains an occupied dwelling or structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered land, brush-covered land, grass-covered land, or land that is covered with flammable material that is within a very high fire hazard severity zone, as designated by a local agency, or a building or structure in, upon, or adjoining those areas or lands within a state responsibility area, to maintain a defensible space of 100 feet from each side and from the front and rear of the structure, as specified. A violation of these requirements is a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 3074	California AB 3074 (20192020)	bill	Fire prevention: wildfire risk: defensible space: ember-resistant zones.	enacted	Friedman	9	29	8	2020-02-21	2020-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/c95e2063-e04b-457a-963c-6cbf80e9c126	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3074	6486c2e2d4ecb73472662269520e95eedeffe3b05dc0148230f27bebe136f09a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 3074 (20192020) — Fire prevention: wildfire risk: defensible space: ember-resistant zones.

Existing law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to identify areas in the state as very high fire hazard severity zones based on specified criteria and the severity of the fire hazard. Existing law requires a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains an occupied dwelling or structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered land, brush-covered land, grass-covered land, or land that is covered with flammable material that is within a very high fire hazard severity zone, as designated by a local agency, or a building or structure in, upon, or adjoining those areas or lands within a state responsibility area, to maintain a defensible space of 100 feet from each side and from the front and rear of the structure, as specified. A violation of these requirements is a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/02/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/07/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/21/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/29/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB3074 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB3074 Friedman et al. By Jackson — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 3074 Friedman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 3074 Friedman Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Friedman — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)
• Wood — coauthor (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
• 2020-04-24 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2020-05-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2020-05-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 13). 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 14. 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 73. Noes 0. Page 4776.) 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 N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2020-07-02 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-05 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-08-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5432.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 259, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c95e2063-e04b-457a-963c-6cbf80e9c126. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).