SB 532: Emergency services: state of emergency: cyberterrorism.

Existing law, 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. Existing law defines the term state of emergency and local emergency to mean a duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state caused by, among other things, fire, storm, or riot.

This bill would additionally include cyberterrorism within those conditions constituting a state of emergency and a local emergency.

This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 8558 of the Government Code proposed by SB 531 to be operative only if this bill and SB 531 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.