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<br />DRAFT 2024 Legislative Positions <br /> <br />10 | P a g e <br />Updated 4.17.2024 <br /> Bill # and Title Description Recommended <br />City Position <br />TVC <br />Position/League <br />Position <br />management <br />activities. <br /> <br />require the State Fire Marshal, if the department does not grant <br />authorization within 90 days, to make a determination within 30 <br />days on whether a local agency may conduct routine fuel <br />management activities on those lands for the protection of life and <br />property. <br /> <br />16 SB 972 (Min) <br /> <br />Methane emissions: <br />organic waste: <br />landfills. <br /> <br />The bill would require the department, the state board, and the <br />California Environmental Protection Agency to hold at least 2 joint <br />meetings per calendar year to coordinate their implementation of <br />policies that affect those specified targets for reducing organic <br />waste in landfills and the department’s regulations adopted to <br />achieve those goals, as specified. <br />Support None/Sponsor- <br />Support <br />LOCAL CONTROL - MISCELLANEOUS <br />17 AB 1168 (Bennett) <br /> <br />Emergency medical <br />services (EMS): <br />prehospital EMS. <br />Would require a city or fire district to retain its authorities and the <br />administration of prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) if <br />it provided, as of June 1980, prehospital EMS through a joint <br />powers agreement with a county and ceased to contract for, <br />provide, or administer prehospital EMS as a result of a judicial <br />finding, or if it is, as of January 2024, providing prehospital EMS <br />and enters a joint powers agreement with a county for joint exercise <br />of powers regarding prehospital EMS. <br /> <br />Support None/ Sponsor - <br />Support <br />18 SB 915 (Cortese) <br /> <br />Local government: <br />autonomous <br />vehicles. <br /> <br />Would prohibit an autonomous vehicle service, which has received <br />approval to conduct commercial passenger service or engage in <br />commercial activity using driverless vehicles by the Department of <br />Motor Vehicles, the Public Utilities Commission, or another state <br />agency, from commencing operation within a local jurisdiction until <br />authorized by a local ordinance enacted pursuant to the bill’s <br />provisions. The bill would authorize each city, county, or city and <br />county in which an autonomous vehicle has received authorization <br />to operate, to protect the public health, safety, and welfare by <br />adopting an ordinance or resolution in regard to autonomous <br />vehicle services within that jurisdiction. The bill would require each <br />Support None/Sponsor - <br />Support <br />Page 79 of 448