# Report critical safety incidents to the Office of Emergency Services

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: California SB 53: Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Jurisdiction**: California (United States)
- **Category**: incident_handling
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2026-01-01
- **Provision**: Business and Professions Code, Chapter 25.1 (as added by SB 53)

## In brief

Report critical safety incidents to the Office of Emergency Services is a legal requirement under the California SB 53 in California (United States) (Business and Professions Code, Chapter 25.1 (as added by SB 53)). It applies from 1 January 2026. The record carries 1 evidence example and mappings to 1 framework.

## What the duty requires

Frontier developers must report critical safety incidents to the California Office of Emergency Services within the statutory time limit after discovery, and the Office is to establish a reporting mechanism.

## What an organisation does about it

Define critical-safety-incident criteria and an escalation path with the statutory clock.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI incident management and regulatory reporting (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-incident-management-and-reporting
- Frontier model safety and security framework (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/frontier-model-safety-framework

## Parent instrument

- California SB 53: Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-california-sb-53
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-california-sb-53.md

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0080 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0080; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-california-sb-53-critical-safety-incident-reporting
- **Official source**: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB53
- **Provision**: Business and Professions Code, Chapter 25.1 (as added by SB 53)
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Report critical safety incidents to the Office of Emergency Services (California SB 53)" [AIPT-OBL-0080, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0080 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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