AB 986 (Muratsuchi D) State of emergency

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 3/25/2025-Re-referred to Com. on E.M.
Location: 3/24/2025-A. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Summary: The California Emergency Services Act authorizes the Governor to declare a state of
emergency, and local officials and local governments to declare a local emergency, when specified
conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and authorizes the
Governor or the appropriate local government to exercise certain powers in response to that
emergency. Current law defines 3 conditions or degrees of emergency for purposes of these
provisions. This bill would additionally include a landslide and preexisting conditions exacerbated by
climate change among those conditions constituting a state of emergency or local emergency.