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type: "Bill"
title: "State of emergency: local emergency: planned power outage."
description: "Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, authorizes the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency, and local officials and local governments to proclaim a local emergency, when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and authorizes the Governor or the appropriate local government to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency. Existing law defines the terms \"state of emergency\" and \"local emergency\" to mean a duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state or the territorial limits of a local government caused by, among other things, a sudden and severe energy shortage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 52"
citation: "California SB 52 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State of emergency: local emergency: planned power outage."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodd"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-12-07"
last_action: "2021-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5991f7c9-67f0-4624-bedc-a0f5877a9826"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB52"
source_hash: "c4cc71e0d1b5498cd44f8141943cb0f3cbd2a5d8cb58761b8d88267dab3ec83e"
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 SB 52 (20212022) — State of emergency: local emergency: planned power outage.
Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, authorizes the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency, and local officials and local governments to proclaim a local emergency, when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and authorizes the Governor or the appropriate local government to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency. Existing law defines the terms "state of emergency" and "local emergency" to mean a duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state or the territorial limits of a local government caused by, among other things, a sudden and severe energy shortage.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **12/07/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB52&version=20210SB5299INT)
2. **04/12/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB52&version=20210SB5298AMD)
3. **08/26/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB52&version=20210SB5297AMD)
4. **10/06/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB52&version=20210SB5295CHP)
5. **SB52** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB52)
6. **09/03/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB52&version=20210SB5296ENR)
## Votes
- Unfinished Business SB52 Dodd et al. Concurrence — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **130** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **70** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB52 Dodd et al. — **360** (pass) · upper
- SB 52 Dodd Senate Third Reading By Aguiar-Curry — **750** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dodd — primary (person)
- Wilk — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-12-07** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-12-08** From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 7.
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** Set for hearing March 9.
- **2021-03-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 420.) (March 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** Set for hearing March 22.
- **2021-03-22** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-03-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-12** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-04-12** Ordered to second reading.
- **2021-04-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 971.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-04-29** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-13** Referred to Com. on E.M. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-25** June 28 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2021-07-06** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-07-07** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-07-12** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
- **2021-07-12** Ordered to third reading.
- **2021-08-26** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-08-26** Ordered to third reading.
- **2021-08-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2565.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-08-31** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2021-09-01** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2278.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2021-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 597, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5991f7c9-67f0-4624-bedc-a0f5877a9826`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).