Wildfires: defensible space: grant programs: local governments.
Existing law requires a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains a building or structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered lands, shrub-covered lands, grass-covered lands, or land that is covered with flammable material to maintain defensible space of 100 feet from each side. Existing law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a statewide program to allow qualified entities, including counties and other political subdivisions of the state, to support and augment the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in its defensible space and home hardening assessment and education efforts. Existing law requires the director to establish a common reporting platform that allows defensible space and home hardening assessment data, collected by the qualified entities, to be reported to the department.
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SB 896
California SB 896 (20212022)
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Wildfires: defensible space: grant programs: local governments.
California SB 896 (20212022) — Wildfires: defensible space: grant programs: local governments.
Existing law requires a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains a building or structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered lands, shrub-covered lands, grass-covered lands, or land that is covered with flammable material to maintain defensible space of 100 feet from each side. Existing law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a statewide program to allow qualified entities, including counties and other political subdivisions of the state, to support and augment the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in its defensible space and home hardening assessment and education efforts. Existing law requires the director to establish a common reporting platform that allows defensible space and home hardening assessment data, collected by the qualified entities, to be reported to the department.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
2022-02-09 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
2022-02-11 Set for hearing March 8.
2022-03-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3048.) (March 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-03-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2022-03-25 Set for hearing April 4.
2022-04-04 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2022-04-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-05-05 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-05-05 Ordered to second reading.
2022-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-05-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 3702.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-05-16 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2022-05-27 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
2022-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2022-08-03 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-08-04 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2022-08-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5827.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-08-11 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2022-08-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
2022-08-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2022-08-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 222, Statutes of 2022. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/afea55ae-bd6e-4f0b-b77f-52b2fceb601f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).