The state senators gathered in Pasadena on Friday afternoon to announce a list of forest fire recovery invoices, including proposals to protect the tenants, expand firefighters and financing programs for displaced students of K-12 and Community schools.
The legislators described the 13 bills package as an effort to “invest in a safe California of fire.”
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“This is one of the most difficult moments that the city and the Los Angeles County have seen in almost a century,” said Senate Pro Tem Mike McGue (D-North Coast) outside the First Methodist Church together with Pasadena. McGuare and the legislative leaders promised to address those affected by the forest fires that burned the Los Angeles stripes last month.
Although it is typical that Bills goes to the assembly in June and lands on the governor's desk in September, McGuare said he hopes to “move some of these bills quickly through the legislature and put it in the damn desk of the governor here in the next 60 days.
Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica), who represents Pacific Palisades and was co-author of three bills in the package, said that the legislation is about “doing everything we can to reduce the possibilities of a disaster as a disaster as a disaster This happens again and also give.
A bill written by Sens. Tom Uberg (D-Santa Ana) and Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) will add civil sanctions to protect those who are displaced from the transfer of prices in temporary homes, accommodation or rentals. It would also authorize the State Attorney General to issue arrest orders against offenders.
Another proposal will require companies to provide temporary relief of mortgage loans. If promulgated, it would allow tenants to recover a part of their rental already paid if they had to move due to forest fires. The mobile houses located “in areas subject to an emergency state” would obtain temporary rental controls.
Senator Susan Rubio (D-Baldwin Park), who presides over the Senate Insurance Committee, and her colleagues introduced a plan to form a commission to centralize the mitigation efforts of forest fires and ensure that owners and developers make buildings that buildings Be more fireproof.
Another bill written by Rubio and Sasha Renée Pérez (D-Pasadena) proposes to expand the non-renovating moratorium of one year on insurance, which is currently for residential policies that are within the postal codes of forest fires, to also cover Commercial policies. The authors argue that this will protect small businesses and condominiums after forest fires.
McGuare introduced the first part of the sweeping package earlier this week. Called The Law of Fight for Firefighters of 2025, it would make about 3,000 seasonal firefighters, who work nine months a year and are dismissed during the winter months, in employees throughout the year.
“Let's be overwhelming, forest fires do not take three months off,” McGuire said at a press conference.
The plan would also cause the state vegetation management equipment and lime trucks to be operational throughout the year. The proposal, said his office, could cost the State more than $ 185 million a year and is a “desperately necessary” personnel plan as the West continues to burning historical rates.
Last month, the Democratic Members of the Assembly introduced projects centered on housing for displaced angels.
This includes legislation that could facilitate that owners obtain a coastal development permit for accessory housing units. Other bills include one that will create an exemption from temporary eviction to allow displaced people to remain in their temporary homes; Another would allow anyone to lose their home receiving up to a year of mortgage postponement.
Republicans throughout the hall have also introduced bills, including a matrix that focuses on hardening criminal sanctions to address recent cases of those looting suspects and other criminal activities during forest fires.
Two were introduced last month that would increase the sanctions for looting, which makes it a serious crime to commit a robbery during a large forest fire or other types of disaster. A bill of Senator Suzette Martínez Valladares (R-Santa Clarita) would make it a serious crime to impersonate a police officer or a firefighter during an emergency state.
Legislators also want to make it a serious crime to fly a drone on an emergency scene and harden the sentence for a fired fire aggravated if a forest fire destroys more than 500 acres. A man recently declared himself guilty of a minor crime in a federal court in Los Angeles after his drone crashed with a fire plane that worked in the Palisades fire.
