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Home/Bills/AB 1749California · 2025–2026 Regular Session
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AB 1749: Interfering with wildfire suppression and emergency responses with drone.

California · Assembly · 2025–2026 Regular Session · last verified August 25, 2026

What AB 1749 does, verified August 25, 2026

This bill prohibits operating or using drones to interfere with wildfire suppression efforts. It makes it a crime to use drones to impede emergency personnel or military personnel in coping with an emergency. The bill also authorizes the attorney general or local attorneys to bring civil action to enforce the prohibition and allows plaintiffs to recover penalties, injunctive relief, and reasonable attorney's fees if they can prove that the defendant recklessly interfered with the emergency response efforts.

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Second ChamberComplete
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Last action: Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (2026-08-24)Alert me
Recent actions27 total · showing 5
Aug. 24, 2026Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
Aug. 20, 2026In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
Aug. 20, 2026Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.).
Aug. 18, 2026Ordered to special consent calendar.
Aug. 13, 2026Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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