---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telecommunications services."
description: "Telecommunications services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 1734"
citation: "California AB 1734 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Telecommunications services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Utilities and Commerce"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2001-03-26"
last_action: "2002-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8035ec19-581f-4e5a-ba89-daec77ad9908"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1734"
source_hash: "66a0ee1f6c405c70b45021e5757ae8e4da2adcbe5d57b4541e02bd1776ecf103"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1734 (20012002) — Telecommunications services.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **03/26/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1734&version=20010AB173499INT)
2. **04/02/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1734&version=20010AB173497AMD)
3. **04/16/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1734&version=20010AB173496AMD)
4. **04/30/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1734&version=20010AB173495AMD)
5. **05/13/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1734&version=20010AB173494AMD)
6. **06/21/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1734&version=20010AB173492CHP)
7. **07/11/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1734&version=20010AB173498AMD)
8. **AB1734** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1734)
9. **06/10/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1734&version=20010AB173493ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1734 U.& C. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By Wright — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1734 U.& C. Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB1734 Committee on Util & Comm (Wright) — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Utilities and Commerce — primary (person)
- Polanco — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2002-06-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 61, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-06-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-06-12** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2002-06-10** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6734.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-06** Withdrawn from committee. Returned to unfinished business file.
- **2002-05-20** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Utilities and Commerce pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after May 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2002-05-16** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4266.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-13** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-05-09** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 6). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-16** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 15). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-08-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2001-07-17** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications. `referral-committee`
- **2001-07-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-21** Referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-10** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 0. Page 1547.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-09** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-03-29** Referred to Standing Committee on Utilities and Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-27** From printer. May be heard in committee April 26.
- **2001-03-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8035ec19-581f-4e5a-ba89-daec77ad9908`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).