SB 581
Fight For Firefighters Act Of 2025
(Senate President pro Tempore McGuire and Senators Grayson, Allen and Pérez )
Transitions all 3,000 9-month seasonal CAL FIRE Firefighters to year-round permanent positions. This bipartisan legislation will fully staff all 356 CAL FIRE fire engines and all heli attack bases 365 days per year while keeping CAL FIRE wildfire vegetation management crews working for a full 12 months.
SB 36
Price Gouging
(Senators Umberg and Smallwood-Cuevas)
Curbs price gouging by adding civil remedies and penalties to protect victims displaced by a state or local emergency. Enhances stronger enforcement of price-gouging for housing, lodging, or rental violations by authorizing warrant authority of the Attorney General; and requires online housing platforms to provide evidence of price gouging to law enforcement.
SB 610
Expand Protections For Residents In The Wake Of An Emergency
(Senators Pérez, Allen and Wahab)
Requires the State to convene mortgage companies in order to provide temporary mortgage loan forbearance relief for homeowners. Allow tenants to recover a proportion of their paid rent if the tenancy agreement terminates due to a wildfire. Establishes a temporary rent control for mobilehomes in areas subject to a state of emergency. Allow mobilehome owners the right to return to a unit after a wildfire, as specified. Extends court timelines for unlawful detainer cases in areas subject to a state of emergency.
SB 663
Provide Property Tax Relief During A State Of Emergency
(Senators Allen and McNerney)
Ensures damaged or destroyed properties maintain their welfare property tax exemption.
Extends the timeline for a taxpayer to file a misfortune and calamity claim, which provides property tax relief.
SB 625
Speed-up Residential Rebuilds Following A State Of Emergency
(Senators Wahab and Richardson)
Requires local governments to provide streamlined ministerial approval of housing developments damaged in a declared emergency.
SB 616
Insurance Community Hardening Commission
(Senators Rubio, Cortese and Stern)
Develop an Insurance Community Hardening Commission to create consistent, data-driven statewide minimum fire standards for mitigation across high fire risk communities. By centralizing these wildfire mitigations into one standard, it will make it easier for homeowners, developers, and builders to comply with all the mitigations. It will also make it easier for homeowners to get insurance and make structures more wildfire safe.
SB 547
Commercial Insurance Nonrenewal Moratorium
(Senators Pérez and Rubio)
Expands the current one-year insurance non-renewal moratorium for residential policies within the perimeters or adjoining ZIP Codes of wildfires to also include commercial policies, thus providing critical protection for small businesses and condominiums after wildfires.
SB 676
Extend California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Streamlining For LA Fires & Other Disasters
(Senators Limón and Blakespear)
Extends the same CEQA streamlining already established on major infrastructure projects to projects aimed at rebuilding communities after disastrous LA wildfires. This could reduce months or years off any CEQA review that applies to projects that may take months or years to be planned for and rebuilt. This streamlining will apply both prospectively and retroactively.
SB 582
Rebuilding Health Facilities, Assisted Living and Child Care Facilities and other licensed Facilities
(Senator Stern)
Assists state licensed facilities on their path to recovery and rebuilding by streamlining licensing processes and providing departments with the authority to waive licensing fees and other licensing requirements.
SB 571
Strengthen Penalties Against Bad Actors During A State Of Emergency
(Senators Archuleta and Arreguín)
Increases penalties for impersonating firefighters and other first responders, and for looting in a fire evacuation area. Ensures that an aggravated arson sentencing enhancement attaches to damage amounts at the time of the crime.
SB 629
Keeping Communities Safe From Wildfires
(Senator Durazo)
Automatically designates areas that burn in a wildfire as within Very High Fire Zones.
Mandates annual inspection of properties subject to defensible space maintenance requirements.
SB 326
California Wildfire Mitigation Strategic Planning Act
(Senators Becker and Laird)
Requires the Office of the State Fire Marshal to prepare a Wildfire Risk Mitigation Planning Framework every three years to quantitatively evaluate wildfire risk mitigation action. The State Fire Marshal must also establish a Wildfire Risk Baseline and Forecast every three years on a statewide level and by county, as well as submit a Wildfire Mitigation Scenarios Report every year.
SB 641
Consumer Protection And Business Recovery
(Senator Ashby)
Protects consumers by establishing timelines and certifications for appropriate debris removal and keeps property owners and disaster area survivors safe from predatory practices by prohibiting a person from making an unsolicited purchase offer in a disaster area.
Protects licensed professionals by waiving various licensure requirements when impacted by a wildfire or natural disaster, including but not limited to continuing education, fees and renewal deadlines.
Budget Proposals
Fire Relief Aid For Displaced Persons
Establishes a one-time disaster relief fund for families and individuals who are impacted by the fires but unable to obtain assistance from other funding streams, such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Supporting Displaced TK-12 Students
Provides average daily attendance funding to schools who lost students due to the wildfire disaster.
Provides disaster relief to basic aid school districts that are enrolling displaced students. This relief will ensure a quality education for students during a difficult, transitional period.
Support For Impacted California Community Colleges
Community colleges affected by wildfires may experience funding reductions due to declining enrollment. To ensure financial stability as these institutions recover, enrollment protections will be provided to maintain consistent funding.