By Brian White, KP Public Affairs, FLC Legislative Advocate and Larry Camp, FLC Legislative Committee
The tables below summarize the current legislation that the FLC is monitoring. Brian White and the Legislative Committee have been successful in amending AB 454 and SB 69 to minimize the adverse impacts from language in the original bills.
Use the following link to find out additional information about any bill of interest http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/. Please contact Larry Camp or Deidre Bryant if you have any questions.
The next newsletter will have an update on activities at the Board of Forestry and the Forest Management Task Force.
Should you have questions, direct them to legchair@forestlandowners.org.
2019 Legislation – Active Legislative Monitoring by Forest Landowners of California
Support |
Oppose |
Neutral |
Now 2 Year Bills |
| SB 462 - Stern | SB 1 - Atkins | AB 454 - Kalra - After Amendments | AB -144 - Aguiar-Curry |
| SB 515 - Caballero | AB 5 - Gonzalez | SB 69 - Wiener - After Amendments | AB 257 - Mathis |
| SB 535 - Moorlach | AB 343 - Patterson - Support | ||
| SB 632 - Galgiani | AB 431 - Gallagher | ||
| AB 490 - Salas | |||
| AB 616 - Patterson - Support | |||
| AB 833 - Dahle | |||
| AB 1067 - Bigelow | |||
| AB 1151 - Daly | |||
| AB 1284 - Carrillo | |||
| AB 1298 - Mullin | |||
| AB 1375 - Bigelow | |||
| AB 1690 - Flora | |||
| AB 1778 Boerner-Horvath | |||
| SB 378 - Wiener - Oppose |
2019 Legislation – Watch with No Current Position by Forest Landowners of California
Assembly Bills |
| AB 38 - Wood; AB 247, AB 248, AB 1160 - Dahle; AB 235, 483, 915 - Mayes; |
| AB 293 - E. Garcia; AB 296, AB 312 - Cooley; AB 394 - Obernolte; AB 409 - Limon |
| AB 417 - Arambula; AB 572 - Kalra; AB740 - Burke; A793 - Ting; AB 839 - Mullin |
| AB 933 - Petrie-Norris; AB 1167 - Mathis; AB 1276 - Bonta; AB 1299, AB 1388 - Flora |
| AB 1516 - Friedman; AB 1612 - Quirk; AB 1823 - Assembly Natural Resources Committee |
Senate Bills |
| SB 44, SB 692 - Skinner; SB 45, SB 757 - Allen; SB 68, SB 133 Galgiani; SB 168 - Wieckowski |
| SB 162 - Jackson; SB 190, SB 209, SB 247- Dodd; SB 195, SB 226 - Nielsen; SB 198 Bates |
| SB 395 - Archuleta; SB 502, SB 566 - Borgeas; SB 739 - Stern; SB 761 - Jones |
Track Bills by visiting http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov and use the Quick Bill Search function.
Current Year
Legislative Archives
Appellate Decision on WFMP Case
Good News -- Exemptions and NTMPs
CAL FIRE has reversed its policy change regarding the acceptance of exemptions for NTMPs. Please refer to the link below to view the letter from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Ken Pimlott) to the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection (Keith Gilless).
Should you have any questions, please send an email to the FLC Legislative Committee at legchair@forestlandowners.org.
Letter and Supporting Content from CAL FIRE to Board of Forestry
Legislative Committee Assignments
Public Policy Institute of California
The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) issued a report in mid-September on the status of forest health in the Headwaters Forests. On September 20, there was a panel debriefing on the report. Click on the links below to download the documents.
If you are interested in wathcing the panel debrief, the video is posted on the PPIC's website: