Local agency, public utility, or mutual water company: personnel access: Personal Identity Verification-Interoperable.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not mention corporations specifically, only local agencies, public utilities, and mutual water companies.

Credentialing for Disaster Response Personnel

This law requires local agencies, public utilities, and mutual water companies to get special identification cards (PIV-I) from the Office of Emergency Services to help their workers access disaster areas.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the Office of Emergency Services to issue Personal Identity Verification-Interoperable (PIV-I) cards to local agencies, public utilities, and mutual water companies starting July 1, 2028.
• Specifies that PIV-I cards must follow federal standards for personal identity verification and national incident management guidelines.
• Requires the application for a PIV-I card to be signed by an authorized representative of the requesting entity and include a certification from them.
• Allows the Office of Emergency Services to charge a fee for issuing PIV-I cards, not exceeding the reasonable costs of the program.
• Ensures that individuals with valid PIV-I or other identification cards issued by their entities can enter closed areas during disasters unless it is unsafe or interferes with disaster response.

Who It Names or Affects

• Local agencies
• Public utilities
• Mutual water companies

Terms To Know

Personal Identity Verification-Interoperable (PIV-I)

A special identification card that follows federal standards to help workers access disaster areas.

Office of Emergency Services

The state agency responsible for managing emergency responses and issuing PIV-I cards under this law.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify the exact fee amount or how it will be determined.
• It is unclear what happens if a local entity fails to comply with the requirements for obtaining a PIV-I card.

Official Summary Text

SB 1001, as amended, Archuleta.
Local agency,
corporation,
public utility,
or mutual water company: personnel access: Personal Identity Verification-Interoperable.
Existing law creates the Office of Emergency Services within the office of the Governor and sets forth its powers and duties, including establishing by rule and regulation various classes of disaster service workers, the scope and duty of each class, and the way disaster service workers of each class are to be registered.
Existing law authorizes officers of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, police departments, marshal’s office or sheriff’s office, and officers or employees of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection or the Department of Fish and Wildlife designated as peace officers to close to all unauthorized persons an area where a menace to the public health or safety created by a calamity exists for the duration of the menace and the immediate area surrounding any emergency field command post or any other command post
activated for the purpose of abating a calamity, riot, or other civil disturbance, as specified. Under existing law, an unauthorized person who enters or remains in a closed area, as prescribed, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
This bill would, beginning on July 1, 2028, require the Office of Emergency Services, upon request, to issue a local agency,
corporation,
public utility,
or mutual water company responsible for public works and critical infrastructure with specified credentialing to facilitate personnel access to an area during or following a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster. The bill would specify that the credentialing, a Personal Identity Verification-Interoperable (PIV-I), would conform with the federal Personal Identity Verification
standards pursuant to federal National Incident Management System guidelines.
This bill would require the application for a PIV-I card to be signed by a duly authorized representative of a local agency,
corporation,
public utility,
or mutual water company and include a certification by the local agency,
corporation,
public utility,
or mutual water company.
This bill would
authorize
require
the office to impose and collect a fee from a local agency,
corporation,
public utility,
or mutual water company for a PIV-I card that does not exceed the reasonable costs of the identification card program.
This bill would specify that the authorization for particular officers to close an area, as described above, shall not prevent an individual who holds a valid PIV-I card
or an individual who holds a valid identification card issued by a local agency, public utility, or mutual water company
from entering the closed area unless a peace officer finds that the disaster is of such a nature that it would be unsafe for the cardholder to enter or that the presence of the cardholder would interfere with disaster response.

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