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CA AB2344
Bill
Status
2/12/2024
Primary Sponsor
Cottie Petrie-Norris
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AI Summary
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Requires the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force to compile and post information on its website about state and federal grant programs related to fire prevention and forest resilience on or before July 1, 2025, and annually thereafter.
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Defines "program" to include nine categories of grants, including state forestry assistance programs, comprehensive wildfire mitigation programs, local fire prevention grants, department wildfire-related grants, and five specific federal grant programs (Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, Fire Management Assistance Grant Program, Community Wildfire Defense Grant program, and other relevant publicly funded grants).
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Requires the task force to post for each program: funding allocated, list of recipients and subrecipients with project locations, amount of funding encumbered, project descriptions with status and completion schedules, and anticipated benefits related to fire prevention, habitat, forest resiliency, climate resiliency, public safety, and natural resource protection.
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Establishes findings that California has invested nearly $3 billion since 2019 into wildfire resilience programs and that approximately one in four residential structures statewide are located in high or very high fire hazard zones.
Legislative Description
Fire prevention: grant programs: reporting.
Last Action
In committee: Held under submission.
5/16/2024