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                                <ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Limón</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 65302.6 of the Government Code, relating to land use. </ns0:Title>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Safety element: local hazard mitigation plan.</ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan that includes various elements, including, among others, a safety element for the protection of the community from specified risks. Existing law authorizes a city or county to adopt within the safety element a local hazard mitigation plan, and requires that plan to meet specified requirements set out in the federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in the provision that authorizes a city or county to adopt a local hazard mitigation plan.</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 65302.6 of the
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                                 is amended to read:
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                                                                (a)
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                                                                A city, county, or a city and county may adopt with its safety element pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 65302 a local hazard mitigation plan (HMP) specified in the federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-390). The hazard mitigation plan shall include all of the following elements called for in the federal act requirements:
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                                                                (1)
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                                                                An initial earthquake performance evaluation of public facilities that provide essential services, shelter, and critical governmental functions.
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                                                                (2)
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                                                                An inventory of private facilities that are potentially hazardous, including, but not limited to, multiunit, soft story, concrete tilt-up, and concrete frame buildings.
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                                                                A plan to reduce the potential risk from private and governmental facilities in the event of a disaster.
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                                                                (b)
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                                                                The Office of Emergency Services shall give preference to local jurisdictions that have not adopted a local hazard mitigation plan
                                  in recommending actions to be funded from the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program, the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, and the Flood Mitigation Assistance Program to assist the local jurisdiction in developing and adopting a local hazard mitigation plan, subject to available funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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