AB 2594: Emergency services: mutual aid: gap analysis.

Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, establishes the Office of Emergency Services within the Governors office under the supervision of the Director of Emergency Services and makes the office responsible for the states emergency and disaster response services. The office serves as the State Disaster Council for the purposes of the California Disaster and Civil Defense Master Mutual Aid Agreement. Existing law authorizes state agencies to provide mutual aid, including personnel, equipment, and other available resources, to assist political subdivisions during a local emergency or in accordance with mutual aid agreements or at the direction of the Governor.

This bill would require the office to prepare a gap analysis of the states mutual aid systems on a biennial basis, beginning on January 1, 2025, as prescribed. The bill would require the office to prepare and submit to specified legislative committees a report on a gap analysis in accordance with the bill no later than February 1, 2025, and biennially thereafter by February 1 of subsequent odd-numbered years.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.