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Bill	Wildfires: defensible space: grant programs: local governments.	Existing law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a statewide program to allow certain entities, including counties and other political subdivisions of the state, that have completed a specified training program, 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. Existing law requires the department to establish a local assistance grant program for fire prevention and home hardening education activities and provides that local agencies, among others, are eligible for these grants. Existing law describes eligible activities under the local assistance grant program as including, among other activities, development and implementation of public education and outreach programs.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 504	California SB 504 (20232024)	bill	Wildfires defensible space grant programs local governments	enacted	Dodd	7	26	6	2023-02-14	2024-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/326d87ff-2002-455b-a5ce-46b6f571599f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB504	10bfc61379d8377403371a7d11912282cfa2158a9e233a40ba9600d7f4fa05d5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 504 (20232024) — Wildfires: defensible space: grant programs: local governments.

Existing law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a statewide program to allow certain entities, including counties and other political subdivisions of the state, that have completed a specified training program, 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. Existing law requires the department to establish a local assistance grant program for fire prevention and home hardening education activities and provides that local agencies, among others, are eligible for these grants. Existing law describes eligible activities under the local assistance grant program as including, among other activities, development and implementation of public education and outreach programs.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/20/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/04/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/22/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB504 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 504 Dodd Senate Third Reading By Friedman — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2023-04-10 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 801.) (April 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-20 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-25 Set for hearing May 1.
• 2023-05-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1004.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-05-11 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2024-06-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-07 August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6695.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-29 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5747.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 982, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/326d87ff-2002-455b-a5ce-46b6f571599f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).