CaliforniaZ'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973: working forest management plans: nonindustrial timber management plans.
What it does
Under the Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973, the Legislature finds and declares that it is the policy of the state to encourage prudent and responsible forest management of nonindustrial timberlands by approving working forest management plans in advance. Existing law regulates nonindustrial tree farmers and working forest landowners for timberland management purposes, including by setting a maximum acreage each may own, and authorizes a person who intends to become a nonindustrial tree farmer or a working forest landowner to submit to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection a nonindustrial timber management plan or a working forest harvest plan, respectively, regarding that acreage. Existing law provides a maximum of 2,500 acres owned for nonindustrial tree farmers and nonindustrial timber management plans and a maximum of 10,000 acres owned for working forest landowners and working forest management plans.
More detail
This bill would increase the maximum acreage for nonindustrial tree farmers and nonindustrial management plans to 4,000 acres and for working forest landowners and working forest management plans to 15,000 acres.
Existing law requires the harvest area of a working forest management plan to be contained within a single hydrological area, as defined.
This bill would eliminate the requirement that the harvest area of a working forest management plan be contained within a single hydrological area.
Existing law requires the working forest landowner who owns, leases, or otherwise controls or operates on all or any portion of any timberland within the boundaries of an approved working forest management plan, and who plans to harvest any of the timber during a given year, to file a working forest harvest notice, as defined, with the department in writing. Existing law exempts the Southern Subdistrict of the Coast Forest District, as described in regulations, from these provisions regarding working forest management plans.
This bill would eliminate this exemption.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
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- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Sep 27Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 504, Statutes of 2026.Latest
- Sep 27Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Aug 24Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.To Governor
- Aug 17Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6199.).Major
- Vote recorded AB 442 Hadwick Concurrence in Senate Amendments. Result: pass.Lower
- Jul 2In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- Vote recorded Consent Calendar 2nd AB442 Hadwick et al. Result: pass.Upper
- Jul 2Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5188.).Passed Senate
- Jun 30Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Jun 29From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Jun 22In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- 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
- Jun 1From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.Major
- May 6Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.Minor
- Jan 29In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Vote recorded AB 442 Hadwick Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 29Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 3871.)Passed Assembly
- Jan 22Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 22From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (January 22).Minor
- Jan 22Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3806.)
- Jan 13From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (January 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Jan 12
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- 2025
- Apr 22Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.Minor
- Apr 21From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended.Major
- Feb 18Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.Minor
- Feb 7From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
- Feb 6Read first time. To print.Introduced