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type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency services: Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission: seismic mitigation and earthquake early warning technology."
description: "Existing law creates, within the office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services which, under the Director of Emergency Services, coordinates disaster response, emergency planning, emergency preparedness, disaster recovery, disaster mitigation, and homeland security activities. Existing law establishes in the Office of Emergency Services the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission (commission) and requires the commission, among other things, to work with specified agencies to identify key activities and responsibilities related to seismic safety and develop a schedule to provide periodic updates to the commission on their activities in order to provide a consistent policy framework to track and monitor the activities of governmental agencies in the fields of earthquake preparedness and seismic safety. Existing law authorizes the commission to take various actions to support monitoring and tracking of these activities, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1770"
citation: "California AB 1770 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alfred E Alquist Seismic Safety Commission", "Emergency services", "seismic mitigation and earthquake early warning technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Emergency Management"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-03-22"
last_action: "2024-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96f91cc8-2c17-453a-b98d-be03da664543"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1770"
source_hash: "9dbc7b7e05f5cce3329b65b408ea002a083cc89e7b7f166a69c562a74a9ee014"
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 1770 (20232024) — Emergency services: Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission: seismic mitigation and earthquake early warning technology.
Existing law creates, within the office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services which, under the Director of Emergency Services, coordinates disaster response, emergency planning, emergency preparedness, disaster recovery, disaster mitigation, and homeland security activities. Existing law establishes in the Office of Emergency Services the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission (commission) and requires the commission, among other things, to work with specified agencies to identify key activities and responsibilities related to seismic safety and develop a schedule to provide periodic updates to the commission on their activities in order to provide a consistent policy framework to track and monitor the activities of governmental agencies in the fields of earthquake preparedness and seismic safety. Existing law authorizes the commission to take various actions to support monitoring and tracking of these activities, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **03/22/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1770&version=20230AB177099INT)
2. **03/13/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1770&version=20230AB177096AMD)
3. **06/19/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1770&version=20230AB177098AMD)
4. **09/01/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1770&version=20230AB177097AMD)
5. **09/06/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1770&version=20230AB177094CHP)
6. **AB1770** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1770)
7. **08/21/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1770&version=20230AB177095ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1770 Emergency Management Concurrence in Senate Amendments By RODRIGUEZ — **760** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **140** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **70** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent AB1770 E.M. — **390** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **70** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1770 E.M. (Rodriguez) By Dodd — **400** (pass) · upper
- AB 1770 E.M. Consent Calendar Second Day — **750** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Committee on Emergency Management — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-03-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-03-23** From printer. May be heard in committee April 22.
- **2023-03-30** Referred to Com. on E.M. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-04-27** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1466.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-17** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-21** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-09-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2023-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-08** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2023-09-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2768.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2023-09-14** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Rodriguez.
- **2024-01-22** From inactive file.
- **2024-01-22** Ordered to the unfinished business file.
- **2024-01-25** Ordered to the Senate.
- **2024-01-25** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2024-03-13** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-13** Ordered to third reading.
- **2024-03-13** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-03-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4972.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-19** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6359.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 212, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96f91cc8-2c17-453a-b98d-be03da664543`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).