---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telecommunications: access to state property for wireless facilities: California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund: Digital Divide Account."
description: "Telecommunications: access to state property for wireless facilities: California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund: Digital Divide Account."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 855"
citation: "California AB 855 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Telecommunications: access to state property for wireless facilities: California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund: Digital Divide Account."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Firebaugh"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2003-02-20"
last_action: "2003-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cde7290c-430e-4142-951f-94923b0d4353"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB855"
source_hash: "384087b6d024277a604c4b8510588eea973a5c21e571fc52710eab8fa8473d5e"
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 855 (20032004) — Telecommunications: access to state property for wireless facilities: California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund: Digital Divide Account.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB855&version=20030AB85599INT)
2. **05/06/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB855&version=20030AB85598AMD)
3. **06/02/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB855&version=20030AB85597AMD)
4. **07/16/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB855&version=20030AB85596AMD)
5. **08/18/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB855&version=20030AB85595AMD)
6. **09/03/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB855&version=20030AB85594AMD)
7. **09/08/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB855&version=20030AB85593AMD)
8. **09/10/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB855&version=20030AB85592AMD)
9. **09/11/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB855&version=20030AB85591AMD)
10. **10/11/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB855&version=20030AB85589CHP)
11. **AB855** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB855)
12. **09/13/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB855&version=20030AB85590ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 855 firebaugh third reading urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Communications. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Firebaugh — primary (person)
- Levine — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 820, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2003-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 54. Noes 23. Page 3921.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2003-09-12** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on third reading file. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 4. Page 2586.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-11** 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. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-09-10** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules 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 (Corrected September 9. ). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-09-08** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-03** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-08-18** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2003-08-18** 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. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-16** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-15** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-01** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-19** Referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization and Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications. `referral-committee`
- **2003-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-06-04** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 9. Page 2233.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 7.) (May 28). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-07** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-06** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-05** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (April 28). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-21** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-04-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-03-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Utilities and Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2003-02-20** 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/cde7290c-430e-4142-951f-94923b0d4353`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).