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Bill	Prescribed Fire Liability Pilot Program: Prescribed Fire Claims Fund.	Existing law authorizes a person, firm, or corporation, or a group or combination of persons, firms, corporations, or groups, that owns or controls brush-covered land, forest lands, woodland, grassland, shrubland, or any combination thereof within a state responsibility area to apply to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) for permission to utilize prescribed burning for specified public purposes. Existing law requires, on or before January 1, 2020, the Forest Management Task Force, or its successor entity, in coordination with the Department of Insurance, to develop recommendations for the implementation of an insurance pool or other mechanism for prescribed burn managers that reduces the cost of conducting prescribed fire while maintaining adequate liability protection for lives and property when conducting prescribed burns.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 926	California SB 926 (20212022)	bill appropriation	Prescribed Fire Liability Pilot Program: Prescribed Fire Claims Fund.	enacted	Dodd	7	35	10	2022-02-07	2022-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/b2ad2e84-3b16-4a9f-896f-7aceecd0560e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB926	950af54813936d5df31ff74fc5a84ca9f43386bd61321a6c6498764066528c0b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 926 (20212022) — Prescribed Fire Liability Pilot Program: Prescribed Fire Claims Fund.

Existing law authorizes a person, firm, or corporation, or a group or combination of persons, firms, corporations, or groups, that owns or controls brush-covered land, forest lands, woodland, grassland, shrubland, or any combination thereof within a state responsibility area to apply to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) for permission to utilize prescribed burning for specified public purposes. Existing law requires, on or before January 1, 2020, the Forest Management Task Force, or its successor entity, in coordination with the Department of Insurance, to develop recommendations for the implementation of an insurance pool or other mechanism for prescribed burn managers that reduces the cost of conducting prescribed fire while maintaining adequate liability protection for lives and property when conducting prescribed burns.

Version chain

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

1. 02/07/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/19/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/15/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB926 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governmental Organization] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB926 Dodd et al. Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB926 Dodd et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 926 Dodd Third Reading Urgency By Friedman — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-07 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-02-07 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2022-02-07 (Ayes 31. Noes 6.)
• 2022-02-07 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)
• 2022-02-08 From printer.
• 2022-02-16 Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and G.O. referral-committee
• 2022-03-04 Set for hearing March 22.
• 2022-03-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3182.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on G.O. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-03-29 Set for hearing April 5.
• 2022-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 3323.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-07 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2022-04-13 April 18 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-04-14 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2022-04-25 April 25 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2022-05-13 Set for hearing May 19.
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3775.) (May 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-24 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3984.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-06-02 Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-03 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-18 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5946.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-18 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-22 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4935.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2022-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 606, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b2ad2e84-3b16-4a9f-896f-7aceecd0560e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).