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ABX 18: Budget Act of 2024.
What ABX 18 does, verified February 16, 2025
This bill aims to amend the state budget to exempt controlled burning activities for wildland vegetation management from permitting requirements if conducted by or under the supervision of a designated public fire protection agency. The state air resources board will be responsible for designating these agencies. The bill declares that it will take effect immediately as a budget bill, allowing for the implementation of these changes without delay.
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Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 21, 2025 · 879 words
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025 – 2026 1st Ext.
| Assembly Bill | No. 8 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Essayli (Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Castillo, Davies, DeMaio, Flora, Gallagher, Sanchez, and Wallis) |
January 21 , 2025 |
An act to amend the Budget Act of 2024 (Chs. 22, 35, and 994, Stats. 2024), by amending Section 99.50 of, and by adding Section 11.60 to, that act, relating to the state budget, and to take effect immediately, budget bill.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB8, as introduced, Essayli . Budget Act of 2024.
The Budget Act of 2024 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal year.
This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2024 to require the State Air Resources Board to designate public fire protection agencies or other equivalent agencies to oversee controlled burning activities and to exempt wildland vegetation management burning, as defined, from permitting requirements if conducted by or under the supervision of a public fire protection agency or other equivalent agency designated by the state board.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 11.60 is added to the Budget Act of 2024 (Chapter 22 of the Statutes of 2024), to read:SEC. 11.60.
(a) Notwithstanding Article 3 (commencing with Section 41850) of Chapter 3 of Part 4 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, or any other law, the State Air Resources Board shall designate public fire protection agencies or other equivalent agencies to oversee controlled burning activities and shall adopt rules and regulations to ensure that such activities are conducted safely and effectively.(b) Wildland vegetation management burning, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 39011 of the Health and Safety Code, shall be exempt from permitting requirements if conducted by or under the supervision of a public fire protection agency or other equivalent agency designated by the State Air Resources Board.
(c) The State Air Resources Board shall develop guidelines and best practices for exempt wildland vegetation management burning to ensure public safety and environmental protection.
SEC. 2.
Section 99.50 of the Budget Act of 2024 is amended to read:INDEX FOR CONTROL SECTIONS
SEC. 99.50.
The following is an index to the general sections of this act. These sections serve to define terms and identify restrictions concerning the appropriations contained in this act.| 1.00 | Budget Act Citation |
| 1.50 | Intent and Format |
| 1.51 | Citations to Prior Budget Acts |
| 1.80 | Availability of Appropriations |
| 2.00 | Items of Appropriation |
| 3.00 | Defines Purposes of Appropriations |
| 3.10 | Subschedule Transfers for Capital Projects |
| 3.50 | Benefit Charges Against Salaries and Wages |
| 3.60 | Contribution to Public Employees’ Retirement Benefits |
| 3.61 | Contribution to Prefund Other Postemployment Benefits |
| 4.05 | Budget Adjustment Authority |
| 4.11 | Position Vacancy Report |
| 4.12 | Vacant Position Savings |
| 4.13 | AB 85 Repayments to Counties |
| 4.20 | Contribution to Public Employees’ Contingency Reserve Fund |
| 4.30 | Lease-Revenue Payment Adjustments |
| 4.72 | Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure |
| 4.75 | Statewide Surcharge |
| 4.80 | State Public Works Board Interim Financing |
| 4.90 | Architectural Revolving Fund Transfer |
| 4.95 | Inmate and Ward Construction Revolving Account Transfer |
| 5.25 | Attorney’s Fees |
| 6.00 | Project Alterations Limits |
| 8.00 | Antiterrorism Federal Reimbursements |
| 8.50 | Federal Funds Receipts |
| 8.51 | Federal Funds Accounts |
| 8.52 | Federal Reimbursements |
| 8.53 | Notice of Federal Audits |
| 8.54 | Enforce Recovery of Federal Funds for Statewide Indirect Costs |
| 8.75 | Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act |
| 9.30 | Federal Levy of State Funds |
| 9.50 | Minor Capital Outlay Projects |
| 11.00 | Information Technology Reporting Requirements |
| 11.10 | Reporting of Statewide Software License Agreements |
| 11.11 | Privacy of Information in Pay Stubs |
| 11.60 | Prescribed Burning |
| 11.93 | Disaster Response-Emergency Operations Account Reconciliation Adjustments |
| 11.95 | Federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 Home and Community-Based Services Funding |
| 11.96 | Coronavirus Fiscal Relief |
| 11.97 | State Appropriation Limit Excludable Federal Fund Appropriations for Capital Outlay |
| 12.00 | State Appropriations Limit (SAL) |
| 12.30 | Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties |
| 12.32 | Proposition 98-Funding Guarantee |
| 12.35 | Financial Aid Policy Change Requirements |
| 12.45 | June to July Payroll Deferral |
| 13.00 | Legislative Counsel Bureau |
| 13.40 | Budgetary Loan Borrowing from Special Funds |
| 14.00 | Special Fund Loans Between Boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs |
| 15.14 | Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund |
| 15.25 | Data Center Rate Adjustment |
| 15.45 | Trial Court Funding Offsets |
| 15.80 | Reparations Legislation Funding |
| 20.00 | Reappropriations and Reversions |
| 24.00 | State School Fund Allocations |
| 24.03 | Reading Control |
| 24.30 | Transfer School Building Rental Income to the General Fund |
| 24.60 | Report of Lottery Funds Received |
| 24.70 | Local Educational Agency Fiscal Accountability |
| 25.40 | Contracted Fiscal Services Costs |
| 25.50 | SCO Apportionment Payment System Assessments |
| 26.00 | Intraschedule Transfers |
| 28.00 | Program Change Notification |
| 28.50 | Agency Reimbursement Payments |
| 29.00 | Position Estimates of Governor’s Budget, May Revision, and Final Change Book |
| 30.00 | Continuous Appropriations |
| 31.00 | Budget Act Administrative Procedures for Salaries and Wages |
| 32.00 | Prohibits Excess Expenditures |
| 33.00 | Item Veto Severability |
| 34.00 | Constitutional Severability |
| 35.21 | Application of Net Final Payment Accrual Methodology |
| 35.35 | FI$Cal—Short-Term Cash Loans |
| 35.50 | Estimated General Fund Revenues and Various Estimates Related to the Budget Stabilization Account |
| 38.00 | Provides That This Bill Is a Budget Bill |
| 39.00 | Identification of Bills Related to the Budget Bill |
| 99.00 | Alphabetical Organization Index |
| 99.50 | Numerical Control Section Index |
SEC. 3.
This act is a Budget Bill within the meaning of subdivision (e) of Section 12 of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall take effect immediately.Text of ABX 18 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions