Emergency services: disaster preparedness.

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Removed Article 4.2 (Section 8580) establishing the State Lifelines Council, which would have been cochaired by the Seismic Safety Commission, Strategic Growth Council, and Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to identify state investments for rapid disaster recovery and develop unified postevent performance standards for public and private utility providers.

Removed Section 1 legislative findings and declarations explaining FEMA's Community Lifelines framework and the Legislature's intent to establish the State Lifelines Council.

Renumbered remaining sections: former Section 3 (OES tabletop exercises, Gov. Code 8608.5) became Section 1, and former Section 4 (community disaster preparedness training, Gov. Code 8608.6) became Section 2.

Updated the legislative counsel's digest to remove references to the Seismic Safety Commission partnership, Strategic Growth Council, and Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Added Section 8608.5 requiring OES to biennially convene key personnel and agencies with emergency management roles to participate in tabletop exercises simulating catastrophic disaster situations based on four specific state disaster response plans (Northern California Flood 2018, Bay Area Earthquake 2016, Cascadia Subduction Zone 2013, Southern California Earthquake 2010).

Added Section 8608.6 requiring OES, in cooperation with California Volunteers, to annually coordinate with local CERT programs to conduct community disaster preparedness training in vulnerable regions of the state.

Added requirement that tabletop exercises must be designed to enhance participant capabilities in at least 4 of 18 listed areas, including community engagement, information sharing, unified command structures, supply chain management, fatality management, firefighting, critical infrastructure stabilization, and search and rescue.

Added requirement that each training event must include testing of community emergency notification systems, with OES prioritizing testing in communities that have experienced past challenges with emergency alerts or evacuation warnings, including those observed during recent wildfires.

Added reporting requirement for OES to submit reports on each tabletop exercise to the committees on budget, the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management, and the Senate Committee on Governmental Organization by February 1, 2028, and biennially thereafter.

Added requirement that OES must use federal preparedness grant funding to offset state, local, and tribal government costs associated with participation in tabletop exercises to the greatest extent possible.

Added requirement that vulnerable regions for community training be identified based on data from FEMA's National Risk Index and a community vulnerability index or similar risk assessment tools.

Corrected 'compliment' to 'complement,' 'decision-makers' to 'decisionmakers,' and 'non-governmental' to 'nongovernmental' throughout the bill text.