The Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations, as defined, unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The act authorizes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt from some or all of those provisions of the act a person engaging in specified forest management activities, as prescribed, including the harvesting of trees for the purpose of reducing the rate of fire spread, duration and intensity, fuel ignitability, or ignition of tree crowns, as provided, known as the Forest Fire Prevention Exemption. The act provides that the Forest Fire Prevention Exemption is operative for a period of 5 years after the effective date of emergency regulations adopted by the board to implement the exemption and is inoperative after that 5-year period. Existing regulations implementing that exemption specify that it becomes inoperative 5 years after February 19, 2019.
California AB 522 (20212022) — Forestry: Forest Fire Prevention Exemption.
The Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations, as defined, unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The act authorizes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt from some or all of those provisions of the act a person engaging in specified forest management activities, as prescribed, including the harvesting of trees for the purpose of reducing the rate of fire spread, duration and intensity, fuel ignitability, or ignition of tree crowns, as provided, known as the Forest Fire Prevention Exemption. The act provides that the Forest Fire Prevention Exemption is operative for a period of 5 years after the effective date of emergency regulations adopted by the board to implement the exemption and is inoperative after that 5-year period. Existing regulations implementing that exemption specify that it becomes inoperative 5 years after February 19, 2019.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2021-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2021-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
2021-02-18 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
2022-01-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (January 10). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
2022-01-12 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2022-01-13 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2022-01-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (January 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-01-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-01-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 4. Page 3401.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-01-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2022-05-04 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
2022-06-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2022-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2022-08-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2022-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 2. Page 4944.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-08-22 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2022-08-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
2022-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2022-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 491, Statutes of 2022. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2645f64d-9dde-41a5-99d1-647af3f5f261. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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