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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Committee on Emergency Management (Assembly Members Ransom (Chair), Bains, Bennett, and Calderon)</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 8607 of the Government Code, relating to emergency services.</ns0:Title>
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<html:p>Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, requires the Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with all interested state agencies with designated response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local emergency management agencies, to jointly establish by regulation a standardized emergency management system for use by all emergency response agencies. The act requires the Office of Emergency Services to complete an after-action report within 180 days of a declared disaster, as provided.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would instead require the Office of Emergency Services to complete 2 after-action reports, the first within the first 180 days of a declared disaster and an updated report no later than 180 days after a declared disaster ends, as provided. The bill would require the office to send both reports to the Assembly and Senate
Committees on Emergency Management, as provided.</html:p>
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<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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Section 8607 of the
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is amended to read:
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(a)
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The Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with all interested state agencies with designated response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local emergency management agencies, shall jointly establish by regulation a standardized emergency management system for use by all emergency response agencies. The public water systems identified in Section 8607.2 may review and comment on these regulations before adoption. This system shall be applicable, but not limited to, those emergencies or disasters referenced in the state emergency plan. The standardized emergency management system shall include all of the following systems as a framework for responding to and managing emergencies and disasters involving multiple jurisdictions or multiple agency responses:
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(1)
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The Incident Command Systems adapted from the systems originally developed by the FIRESCOPE Program, including those currently in use by state agencies.
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(2)
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The multiagency coordination system as developed by the FIRESCOPE Program.
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(3)
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The mutual aid agreement, as defined in Section 8561, and related mutual aid systems such as those used in law enforcement, fire service, and coroners operations.
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(4)
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The operational area concept, as defined in Section 8559.
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(b)
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Individual agencies’ roles and responsibilities agreed upon and contained in existing laws or the state emergency plan are not superseded by this article.
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(c)
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The Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with
the State Fire Marshal’s office, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, the Emergency Medical Services Authority, and all other interested state agencies with designated response roles in the state emergency plan, shall jointly develop an approved course of instruction for use in training all emergency response personnel, consisting of the concepts and procedures associated with the standardized emergency management system described in subdivision (a).
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(d)
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All state agencies shall use the standardized emergency management system as adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) to coordinate multiple jurisdiction or multiple agency emergency and disaster operations.
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(e)
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(1)
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Each local agency, in order to be eligible for any funding of response-related costs under disaster assistance programs, shall use
the standardized emergency management system as adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) to coordinate multiple jurisdiction or multiple agency operations.
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(2)
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Notwithstanding paragraph (1), local agencies shall be eligible for repair, renovation, or any other nonpersonnel costs resulting from an emergency.
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(f)
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(1)
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Within the first 180 days of a disaster declaration, the Office of Emergency Services shall, in cooperation with involved
state and local agencies, complete an after-action report that includes a review of the public safety response and conclusions and recommendations based on findings. The office shall make the report available to all interested public safety and emergency management organizations.
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(2)
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No later than 180 days after a disaster declaration ends, the Office of Emergency Services shall, in cooperation with involved state and local agencies, provide an update to the previously released after-action report to include a review of disaster recovery activities and conclusions and recommendations based on findings. The update may include changes to other sections of the after-action report if the office identifies the changes in the report. The office shall
make the updated report available to all interested public safety and emergency management organizations.
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(3)
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(A)
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The office shall send both the after-action report and the updated after-action report to the Assembly and Senate Committees on Emergency Management.
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(B)
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The reports shall be submitted pursuant to Section 9795.
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