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Bill	Wildland fire prevention: vegetation management.	Existing law establishes the Wildfire Safety Division within the Public Utilities Commission to, among other things, oversee and enforce electrical corporations' compliance with wildfire safety requirements. Existing law requires the division to approve or deny each wildfire mitigation plan and plan updates submitted by an electrical corporation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 247	California SB 247 (20192020)	bill	Wildland fire prevention: vegetation management.	enacted	Dodd	11	34	10	2019-02-11	2019-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/6fb2da51-0bfe-43b7-ad14-eda23fa3d043	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB247	65c3293a45fe02b4e62c8e642b0261aaa3126e8212b3797cf684c7d636a1f744	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 247 (20192020) — Wildland fire prevention: vegetation management.

Existing law establishes the Wildfire Safety Division within the Public Utilities Commission to, among other things, oversee and enforce electrical corporations' compliance with wildfire safety requirements. Existing law requires the division to approve or deny each wildfire mitigation plan and plan updates submitted by an electrical corporation.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/29/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/12/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/02/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/12/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/03/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/02/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. SB247 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB247 Dodd Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources and Water] — 11–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 247 Dodd Senate Third Reading By Wood — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-11 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2019-02-12 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 14.
• 2019-02-21 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2019-03-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-03-20 Re-referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. (Ayes 11. Noes 1. Page 650.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 777.) (April 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-04-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2019-05-13 May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-14 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1093.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1183.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-10 Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2019-06-12 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-07-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-07-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-21 August 21 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3199.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2833.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-18 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 406, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6fb2da51-0bfe-43b7-ad14-eda23fa3d043. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).