Fire protection: Office of the State Fire Marshal: State Board of Fire Services: membership: quorum.

Existing law creates in the Office of the State Fire Marshal a State Board of Fire Services to succeed to all the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the former State Fire Advisory Board. Under existing law, the board is composed of one representative each from the insurance industry, city government, a fire district, and county government, a volunteer firefighter, 3 fire chiefs, and 5 fire service labor representatives, all appointed by the Governor, as provided. Under existing law, the board is also composed of the State Fire Marshal, the Chief Deputy Director of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection who is not the State Fire Marshal, the Director of Emergency Services, the Chairperson of the California Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee, and the cultural burning liaison, as provided. This bill would also require the Governor to appoint the cultural burning liaison. The bill would authorize the State Fire Marshal, the Chief Deputy Director of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection who is not the State Fire Marshal, the Director of Emergency Services, and the Chairperson of the California Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee to assign a designee to serve as a proxy on the board. Existing law requires the Governor to select one of the 5 fire service labor representatives from a list of names submitted by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Firefighters. This bill would instead require the Governor to select one of the 5 fire service labor representatives from a list of names submitted by the CAL FIRE Firefighters Local 2881. Under existing law, a quorum of the board consists of not less than 9 members of the board. This bill would increase the minimum number of members for a quorum of the board to 10. This bill would also make conforming changes, including correcting the number of members on the board. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.