California Emergency Management Agency.

Existing law creates the California Emergency Management Agency and requires it to perform a variety of duties with respect to specified emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response activities in the state. Prior to the creation of the California Emergency Management Agency, these activities were the responsibility of the Governor's Office of Emergency Services and the Office of Homeland Security. The Budget Act of 2003 eliminated the Office of Criminal Justice Planning, and its responsibilities for administering a variety of planning, training, education, and crime suppression and mitigation programs ultimately were assigned to the Office of Emergency Services. This bill would make conforming changes to reference the California Emergency Management Agency and the Secretary of Emergency Management as the entities responsible for the programs and activities described above. The bill would require, beginning July 1, 2011, that the agency report biennially to the Legislature, as specified, and delete other reporting requirements, both current and previously due. The bill would require the secretary to establish a Curriculum Development Advisory Committee, which would make recommendations regarding terrorism awareness curriculum and response training and would eliminate the Emergency Response Training Advisory Committee. Among other things, the bill would also eliminate the requirement that the Seismic Safety Commission establish an urban search and rescue emergency response advisory committee and the responsibility of the California Emergency Management Agency to monitor, evaluate, and report on various projects related to runaway youth. This bill would make technical nonsubstantive changes. Existing law defines specified persons as peace officers and provides that these peace officers may carry firearms under the terms and conditions of their employment as specified by their employing agencies. Existing law authorizes the Director of Consumer Affairs to designate 3 persons as peace officers to be assigned to the special investigations unit of the Contractors' State License Board. This bill would authorize the director to designate 12 persons as peace officers for assignment to the special investigations unit of the Contractors' State License Board. This bill would provide that specified sections will not become operative if AB 2408 of the 2009–10 Regular Session amends those sections and is enacted prior to this bill.