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Bill	Wildfires: local assistance grant program: prescribed grazing: advance payments.	Existing law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a local assistance grant program for fire prevention activities, defined to include grazing activities, and home hardening education activities. Under existing law, eligible grant activities include public education outreach activities, as provided. Under existing law, the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection may, until January 1, 2024, authorize advance payments from a grant program award, not to exceed 25% of the total grant award, except as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 297	California AB 297 (20232024)	bill	Wildfires advance payments local assistance grant program prescribed grazing	enacted	Vince Fong	6	24	8	2023-01-26	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/715366a8-83d8-42f8-9c87-a4ec7a06c1e3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB297	0f0850cd1b26b889ce20ab48632c7efb95f4116c88535de763f1ef2bf437c42e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 297 (20232024) — Wildfires: local assistance grant program: prescribed grazing: advance payments.

Existing law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a local assistance grant program for fire prevention activities, defined to include grazing activities, and home hardening education activities. Under existing law, eligible grant activities include public education outreach activities, as provided. Under existing law, the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection may, until January 1, 2024, authorize advance payments from a grant program award, not to exceed 25% of the total grant award, except as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/26/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 09/05/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/08/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB297 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB297 Vince Fong By Seyarto — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 297 Vince Fong Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 297 Vince Fong Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Vince Fong — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-01-27 From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
• 2023-02-02 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1965.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-14 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2023-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-10 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2791.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3594.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 519, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/715366a8-83d8-42f8-9c87-a4ec7a06c1e3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).