CaliforniaPublic resources.
What it does
(1) The Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations, as defined, unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to, and approved by, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The act authorizes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt from some or all of those provisions of the act a person engaging in specified forest management activities, including an exemption, known as the Forest Resilience Exemption, for the harvesting of certain trees for the purpose of reducing the rate of fire spread, duration and intensity, fuel ignitability, or ignition of tree crowns. The act requires certain conditions to be met to qualify for the exemption, including that all trees harvested are marked by, or under the supervision of, a registered professional forester before felling operations begin.
More detail
This bill would remove the above-described condition to qualify for the Forest Resilience Exemption.
(2) The California Coastal Act of 1976, which is administered by the California Coastal Commission, requires a person wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone to obtain a coastal development permit. The act further provides for the certification of local coastal programs by the commission. The act generally prohibits, after certification of a local coastal program and all implementing actions within the affected area, the commission from exercising its coastal development permit review authority over any new development proposed within the area to which the certified local coastal program, or any portion thereof, applies. The act provides that this prohibition does not apply to development proposed or undertaken within any state university or college within the coastal zone. The act defines "state university" to mean the University of California and the California State University.
This bill would make the commission's authority pursuant to the above-described provision on coastal development permit review applicable only to state universities by removing references to state colleges.
The act also provides for the submission to, and approval by, the commission of state university or college or private university long-range development plans and provides for amendments to those plans.
This bill would make the commission's authority pursuant to long-range development plans as described above applicable only to state universities or private universities by removing the references to state colleges.
This bill would also define "nonprofit organization" for purposes of the act and would make various nonsubstantive and conforming changes.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
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- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Jul 6Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 60, Statutes of 2026.Latest
- Jul 6Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Jul 2Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.To Governor
- Jun 25In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.Minor
- Vote recorded Consent Calendar 2nd AB2791 NAT. RES. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 25Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5016.).Passed Senate
- Jun 23Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Jun 22From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Jun 9From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Upper
- May 20Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.Minor
- May 7In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Vote recorded AB 2791 Natural Resources Consent Calendar Second Day. Result: pass.Lower
- May 7Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 4969.)Passed Assembly
- Apr 30Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Apr 29From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 29).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 21From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 20
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 23Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.Minor
- Mar 18From printer. May be heard in committee April 17.
- Mar 17Read first time. To print.Introduced