State senators gathered in Pasadena on Friday afternoon to announce a list of bills for recovering forest fires, including proposals to protect tenants, extend the fire endowment of firefighters and finance programs For displaced students from kindergarten to 12th year and community colleges.
The legislators qualified the package of 13 bills an effort to “invest in a secure California”.
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“This is one of the most difficult moments that the city and the county of La la la la la for almost a century,” said Pro Tem McGuire (Coast D-North) of the Senate outside the First Methodist Church de Pasadena. McGuire and the legislative leaders promised to address people affected by forest fires who burned the Los Angeles bands last month.
Although it is typical that the bills go to the Assembly in June and land on the governor’s office in September, McGuire said that he hoped to “quickly move some of these bills through the Assembly legislative and put it on the sacred office here in the next 60 days. “
Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica), which represents the Pacific palisades and co-wrote three bills in the pack them the relief that they deserve so deep.
A bill written by Sens. Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana) and Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) will add civil penalties to protect those that are moved from temporary housing prices, accommodation or rentals. He would also authorize the attorney general of the State to issue mandates against offenders.
Another proposal will oblige companies to provide temporary alleviations on the mortgage loan. If it is promulgated, this would allow tenants to recover part of their rent already paid if they were to move because of forest fires. Mobile houses located “in areas subject to a state of emergency” would receive temporary rent checks.
Senator Susan Rubio (D-Baldwin Park), who chairs the senatorial insurance committee, and her colleagues presented a plan to form a commission to centralize the efforts to attenuate forest fires and guarantee owners and developers to make buildings more anti-fire.
Another bill written by Rubio and Sasha Renée Pérez (D-Pasadena) proposes to extend the unrepreneurs one year to insurance, which is currently for residential policies that are in postal codes of fire of forest, to also cover trade policies. The authors argue that this will protect small businesses and condominiums after forest fires.
McGuire presented the first part of the scanning package earlier this week. Called the fight for firefighters of 2025, it would be around 3,000 seasonal firefighters, who work nine months of the year and will be dismissed for the winter months, in employees all year round.
“Let’s be frank, forest fires do not take three months off,” said McGuire at a press conference.
The plan would also make state vegetation management teams and operational calculation fires all year round. The proposal, said its office, could cost the state more than $ 185 million a year and is a “desperately necessary” endowment plan while the West continues to burn at historical prices.
Last month, Democratic members of the Assembly presented Housing Bill for Housing for Angenos, displaced Angelenos.
This includes legislation which could facilitate the obtaining of owners to more easily obtain a coastal development permit for accessory residential units. The other bills include that which will create a temporary expulsion exemption to allow the displaced to stay in their temporary houses; Another would allow anyone who has lost their house to receive up to a year of mortgage.
Republicans from all over the aisle also presented bills, including a table that focuses on the stiffening of criminal sanctions to approach recent cases of people suspected of looting and other criminal activities during forest fires.
Two were introduced last month, which would increase penalties for looting, making it a crime to commit a burglary during a large forest fire or other types of disaster. A bill for Senator Suzette Martinez Valladares (R-Santa Clarita) would make a crime to identify a police officer or a firefighter in an emergency.
Legislators also want to make it a crime to pilot a drone on an emergency scene and harden the aggravated criminal fire penalty if a forest fire destroys more than 500 acres. A man recently pleaded guilty to an offense in front of the Los Angeles Federal Court after his drone collided with a fire -fighting plane working on the fire of Palisades.
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