republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-398.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Fire Marshal: certification."
description: "Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to establish recommended minimum standards for fire protection personnel at all career levels. Under existing law, the Training Regulations of the State Fire Marshal establish minimum standards for statewide training and certification systems for the California fire service. Existing law allows a state agency or an agency of a political subdivision within the state to elect to be subject to those standards or to petition for an alternative to those training and certification standards."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 398"
citation: "California AB 398 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Fire Marshal: certification."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morrell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2011-02-14"
last_action: "2011-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd6f9e81-7bbb-4a24-905d-03e44eea1c57"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB398"
source_hash: "01008b4e5997cd45a0245ebcca61d07e20491ce9450a8e283bd294e4b0da469b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 398 (20112012) — State Fire Marshal: certification.

Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to establish recommended minimum standards for fire protection personnel at all career levels. Under existing law, the Training Regulations of the State Fire Marshal establish minimum standards for statewide training and certification systems for the California fire service. Existing law allows a state agency or an agency of a political subdivision within the state to elect to be subject to those standards or to petition for an alternative to those training and certification standards.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB398&version=20110AB39899INT)
2. **07/12/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB398&version=20110AB39898AMD)
3. **09/06/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB398&version=20110AB39896CHP)
4. **AB398** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB398)
5. **08/19/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB398&version=20110AB39897ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 398 MORRELL Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 398 MORRELL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **69–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **13–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Morrell — primary (person)
- Beth Gaines — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2011-02-24** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1349.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-26** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-11** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, be amended, and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2011-07-12** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-07-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1865.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-07-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-08-18** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 1. Page 2440.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-22** Enrolled measure version corrected.
- **2011-08-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2011-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 215, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd6f9e81-7bbb-4a24-905d-03e44eea1c57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).