AB 986 (Muratsuchi D) State of emergency

Current Text: Amended: 5/23/2025 
Last Amend: 5/23/2025
Status: 6/18/2025-Referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 6/18/2025-S. G.O.
Summary: 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 3 conditions or degrees of emergency for purposes of these
provisions. This bill would additionally include a landslide among those conditions constituting a state
of emergency or local emergency.