Updated: 5/19/2005

SB 1084 Kehoe
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1051-1100/sb_1084_bill_20050426_amended_sen.html

SB 1084, as amended, Kehoe. Forest practices. Under existing law, the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection is required to classify all lands within the state to determine areas in which the financial responsibility of preventing and suppressing fires is primarily the responsibility of the state.

The bill would require the State Fire Marshal to establish a certification program for a private individual to be trained as a fire safe inspector, fire safe plan reviewer, or fire safe plan specialist. The bill would prohibit a person from selling, offering for sale, leasing, or renting to any person a specified internal combustion engine, unless the equipment has a permanent warning label attached warning of the danger of starting a fire from sparks created by the operation of the equipment.

The bill would revise the definition of "wild land" and define "hazardous fuel reduction" for purposes of a state responsibility area.

Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to adopt minimum fire safety standards for construction approved within state responsibility areas after January 1, 1991.

This bill would require those fire safety standards to also apply to construction approved on or before to January 1, 1991, within state responsibility areas on a parcel that is transferred, sold, gifted, or exchanged after January 1, 2006.

AB 1718, Mountjoy. Forestry and fire prevention: screens.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1701-1750/ab_1718_bill_20050222_introduced.html
(this is apparently to update the vent language from the Vargas AB 1216 bill - http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04/bill/asm/ab_1201-1250/ab_1216_bill_20031009_chaptered.html )

AB 669 - La Suer. Firefighter training and standards
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0651-0700/ab_669_bill_20050330_amended_asm.html

This bill would create the California Firefighter Training Standards Task Force, composed of specified state agency heads and representatives from other associations and entities, to coordinate with participating agencies and stakeholders to develop a system that puts in place a comprehensive, continuing training and education structure that meets the needs of the disciplines within the fire service profession.

The bill would also require the task force to make a specified report to the Legislature no later than July 1, 2006.

AB 260, Bermudez, Fire Marshal reports
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0251-0300/ab_260_bill_20050413_amended_asm.html