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Water: Urban Water Community Drought Relief program: Small Community Drought Relief program: high fire hazard and very high fire hazard severity zones.

Introduced: it can still change before the session ends.

CA SB 746 · Senate Bill · 2025–2026

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Feb 2, 2026

What it does

Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas in the state as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on consistent statewide criteria and based on the severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in those areas. Existing law requires a local agency to designate, by ordinance, moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction within 120 days of receiving recommendations from the State Fire Marshal, as provided.

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Where it stands

  1. Introduced (Current step)

    Introduced · Feb 2, 2026

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