Enhanced infrastructure financing district: climate resilience districts.

Removed all amendment history dates (May 8, May 20, March 26, July 2, July 17, August 27) and replaced with final passage dates: Passed the Senate September 4, 2025 and Passed the Assembly September 3, 2025.

Added standard enrolled bill language including governor receipt date line, 'Approved ___, 2025' signature block, and 'Governor' designation at the end of the document.

Removed all 'line X' numbering from the statutory text of Section 62313, which is a formatting convention used during amendment tracking but not present in enrolled bills.

Page numbers changed from 93 to 92 throughout, and the legislative counsel's digest was reformatted with adjusted line breaks. The digest heading changed from 'SB 782, as amended, Perez' to 'SB 782, Perez.'

Public meeting responsibilities are now split: the city or county entity proposing formation holds the first public meeting on the resolution of intention, while the governing board of the district holds a separate public meeting on the adoption of the infrastructure financing plan. Previously, a single entity held both meetings.

Notice posting requirements are now split between two entities: the city or county must post notice for its own meeting, and the governing board of the district must separately post notice for its meeting, each at least 10 days in advance on their respective websites.

The urgency statute justification no longer references ensuring safety of students, teachers, faculty, and staff or promoting calm on school sites and campuses. The remaining justification focuses solely on timely restoration of critical infrastructure, uninterrupted public services, and economic stability related to the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.

The bill now specifies that Section 62313 is added 'immediately following Section 62312' in the Government Code, clarifying its placement.

The resolution requirement changed from referencing 'this chapter' to 'this division' when describing the terms under which the district is proposed to be established.

The bill was renumbered from enrolled format to Chapter 552 in the California Statutes, with the Governor's approval date (October 10, 2025) added.

Page numbering changed from page 92 to page 91 throughout the document, reflecting re-pagination in the statutory compilation.

Line wrapping and formatting were adjusted throughout the text to conform to the standard layout used in the California Statutes publication. No words were added, removed, or altered in the substantive provisions.

New subsection (k) requires that public members appointed to the governing board of a disaster recovery district must be residents of, own property in, or represent a business within the district boundaries, and must serve terms of not fewer than four years, subject to term limits set by the legislative body.

Subsection (g) cross-reference was changed from 'Chapter 2.99 (commencing with Section 53398.50) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5' to simply 'this division,' a technical correction to the statutory reference.

In subsection (E)(i), the phrase 'enhanced infrastructure financing district' was shortened to 'district' for brevity, and the old disaster definition subsection (k) was renumbered to (l) to accommodate the new provision.

The definition of 'disaster' is expanded to include any disaster for which the Governor has declared a state of emergency under the California Emergency Services Act, not just federally declared major disasters. This means districts can now be formed in response to state-only emergencies.

Areas adjacent to the disaster area may now be included within district boundaries, but those adjacent areas are capped at no more than 20 percent of the total district area.

The amendment to Section 53398.50 (findings and declarations about local agencies financing wildfire mitigation, climate adaptation, affordable housing, broadband, and other projects) is entirely removed from the bill.

A new third category of permitted revenue use is added: supporting economic recovery from a disaster, which includes residential and commercial reconstruction, affordable housing development, prevention of displacement, low-interest construction loans, capital access programs for small businesses, and workforce development and job training programs.

The 'addressing the risk of a future disaster' provision is expanded to specifically name water and energy resource access during emergencies and undergrounding and hardening of electrical lines and other utilities as qualifying purposes.

A new requirement that the city or county must adopt the resolution no more than two years after the proclamation of the disaster.

The public inspection period for the infrastructure financing plan is extended from at least 10 days before the hearing to approve formation to at least 30 days before the second public meeting.

New restrictions on bond proceeds: they shall not be used for costs of operations, programs, or providing services of any kind. Additional filing requirements are added for statements with county auditors, assessors, and the State Board of Equalization by January 31.

Responsibility for holding public meetings and posting notices is clarified as belonging to 'the entity proposing formation of the district' rather than 'the district,' since the district does not yet exist at that stage.

The urgency clause justification was significantly expanded. It now explicitly cites the January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles County and adds reasons including timely restoration of critical infrastructure, uninterrupted delivery of public services, economic stability, and preventing unnecessary delays in rebuilding roads and essential facilities. This strengthens the constitutional basis for the bill taking effect immediately rather than on January 1.

The legislative digest vote requirement language was simplified from 'majority 2/3' to '2/3', a minor clarification with no substantive policy effect.

Page numbers changed from 96 to 95 throughout the document, reflecting the increased length of the bill due to the expanded urgency clause. Other changes are line-break and spacing adjustments only.

New Government Code Section 62313 is added, creating a dedicated legal mechanism for establishing enhanced infrastructure financing districts in disaster-affected areas with simplified procedures.

The bill title now references both Section 53398.50 (local agencies) and the new Section 62313 (local government), expanding the bill's legal reach beyond its originally introduced scope.

The streamlined tax division process is only available when disaster damage has caused conditions so prevalent and substantial that normal predisaster usage of the area has been reduced to an extent causing a serious physical and economic burden that cannot reasonably be expected to be reversed without redevelopment.

The resolution must state district boundaries, type of public facilities to be financed, the need and goals of the district, that incremental property tax revenue may be used, provisions for sales and use tax allocation, and fix a time and place for public meetings.

Two public meetings are required: one to consider the resolution of intention to establish the district and a second to consider adoption of the infrastructure financing plan. Notice must be posted on the district website at least 10 days before each meeting, describing boundaries, purpose, and document inspection details.

District revenue is limited to either (1) acquiring, demolishing, repairing, restoring, rehabilitating, or replacing buildings, low- and moderate-income housing, facilities, structures, or improvements damaged or destroyed by the disaster, or (2) addressing the risk of a future disaster.

'Disaster' is defined as any flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, tidal wave, or other catastrophe occurring on or after January 1, 1996, for which the Governor has certified the need for assistance and the President has determined to be a major disaster under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

A district established under this section may approve projects inconsistent with the city or county general plan and specific plan, providing flexibility in disaster recovery planning that would normally be restricted.

The definition of 'disaster' was narrowed significantly. Previously it covered any flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, tidal wave, or other catastrophe that received a federal major disaster declaration under the Stafford Act OR a state emergency declaration. Now it only covers disasters for which the Governor has declared a state of emergency under Section 8625 of the California Emergency Services Act, removing the federal declaration pathway and the enumerated list of disaster types.

An urgency clause (Section 2) was added declaring the bill an urgency statute necessary for immediate preservation of public peace, health, or safety, allowing it to take effect immediately rather than on the standard July 1 date.

The legislative vote requirement changed from a simple majority to a two-thirds majority, making passage more difficult.

The public inspection period for the infrastructure financing plan was extended from at least 10 days before the hearing to approve district formation to at least 30 days before the second public meeting, giving the public and affected taxing entities more time to review and comment.