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At its core, AB 1383 is about balance, protecting our pension system while ensuring it remains fair for the people who rely on it. Supporting firefighters in a meaningful, responsible way is not a step backward. It’s an investment in the safety and resilience of our communities.

AB 1383 allows firefighters to plan their futures, reduce prolonged exposures to hazards and leave the job healthier. It also helps fire departments manage long-term costs by reducing late-career work-related injuries, costly disability retirements and occupational illnesses.

AB 1383 does not remove safeguards or undo reform under the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act. Core protections remain in place, and there are no retroactive benefit increases. These changes apply only to future service

Younger firefighters now face longer careers, even as wildfires intensify in size and frequency, and the risks they take every day only increase. That’s why the fire service is united in our strong support for Assembly Bill 1383 (McKinnor), a bill that strengthens retirement security for firefighters by lowering the retirement age from 57 to…

AB 1383 would make targeted, prospective changes to the state’s retirement law. For public safety personnel, it would reduce the normal retirement age from 57 to 55, reducing exposures to dangers.

These bills cover areas important to firefighters and their communities, including firefighter health and safety, workers’ compensation presumptions, protecting public resources, and pension security.

With the threats to firefighter working conditions, wages, benefits, and retirement security continuing to grow, CPF leadership has revamped the Membership Activism Committee with renewed focus and energy to take on CPF’s most pressing legislative and organizational priorities.

Sacramento – California Professional Firefighters (CPF) announced today its endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 Presidential Election, praising the Vice President on her leadership on and deep understanding of the needs of firefighters and emergency responders responsible for protecting the public’s safety.  CPF President Brian K. Rice made the following statement on…

On September 26th, a big rig carrying lithium-ion batteries at the San Pedro Bay Port Complex overturned, igniting an intense fire that disrupted port operations and caused the closure of a major freeway.

Former President Trump should be ashamed for threatening to withhold federal firefighting aid from California should he be elected. As of today, thousands of firefighters are on the front lines responding to wildfires throughout the state, and countless Californians are in harm’s way as they heed evacuation orders. Nevertheless, former President Trump expressed that he…

California’s firefighters and paramedics see the impacts of this crisis, and the human toll it takes, every day on the job. 

Every one of the seven measures CPF sponsored in the Legislature have been signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom

Epic ambulance waiting times at hospital emergency rooms are crippling the 9-1-1 medical response system.