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Bill	Fire safety: low-cost retrofits: regional capacity review: wildfire mitigation.	(1) Existing law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to designate specified areas as very high fire hazard severity zones and requires a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains a building or structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered lands, brush-covered lands, grass-covered lands, or land that is covered with flammable material to take specified measures to protect that building or structure from wildfires.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 38	California AB 38 (20192020)	bill	Fire safety: low-cost retrofits: regional capacity review: wildfire mitigation.	enacted	Wood	13	41	12	2018-12-03	2019-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/41dcabf2-9e02-4cd8-a575-81557d000c39	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB38	92198ea01c129cd4758de4ab770134c36fc677c0bbe735a703133a02f2ae56ac	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 38 (20192020) — Fire safety: low-cost retrofits: regional capacity review: wildfire mitigation.

(1) Existing law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to designate specified areas as very high fire hazard severity zones and requires a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains a building or structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered lands, brush-covered lands, grass-covered lands, or land that is covered with flammable material to take specified measures to protect that building or structure from wildfires.

Version chain

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

1. 12/03/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/30/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/16/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/18/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/01/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
11. 10/02/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
12. AB38 (committee substitute) — source
13. 09/20/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB38 Wood et al. By Stern — 35–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — 14–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Governmental Organization] — 8–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 38 Wood Assembly Third Reading — 70–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–1 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in, but first be re-referred to Com. on [Natural Resources] — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 14–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 38 Wood Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Stern — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-12-04 From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
• 2019-01-24 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2019-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2019-04-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (April 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-10 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 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
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2019-04-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 22). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-30 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 2. Page 1915.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and G.O. referral-committee
• 2019-06-18 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 2860.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2019-09-12 Re-referred to Coms. on G.O. and NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2019-09-12 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3512.)
• 2019-09-13 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in, but first be re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (September 13). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-09-13 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3552.)
• 2019-09-13 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (September 13). committee-passage
• 2019-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3608.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2019-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 391, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/41dcabf2-9e02-4cd8-a575-81557d000c39. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).