---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telecommunications: pay telephones."
description: "(1) Existing law requires an owner or operator of a coin-activated telephone for public use, which is not a telephone corporation and which provides operator-assisted services by other than a telephone corporation tariffed to provide those services, to post on or near the telephone equipment certain information, as prescribed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 50"
citation: "California SB 50 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Telecommunications: pay telephones."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lieu"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-12-19"
last_action: "2013-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26a2a7e9-4317-4ffa-9e2e-9c90d7ed6ec4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB50"
source_hash: "4bc29a748d9e366eebbf148adc0f9456a08db016e14e73417f49ace27a8667a3"
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 SB 50 (20132014) — Telecommunications: pay telephones.

(1) Existing law requires an owner or operator of a coin-activated telephone for public use, which is not a telephone corporation and which provides operator-assisted services by other than a telephone corporation tariffed to provide those services, to post on or near the telephone equipment certain information, as prescribed.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/19/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB50&version=20130SB5099INT)
2. **03/21/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB50&version=20130SB5098AMD)
3. **04/30/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB50&version=20130SB5097AMD)
4. **08/26/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB50&version=20130SB5095CHP)
5. **SB50** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB50)
6. **08/13/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB50&version=20130SB5096ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 50 Lieu Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #3 — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lieu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-12-19** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2012-12-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 19.
- **2013-01-07** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2013-01-10** Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-12** Set for hearing April 2.
- **2013-03-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-01** Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-04-02** Set for hearing April 16.
- **2013-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 564.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-19** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2013-04-29** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-01** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2013-05-06** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 809.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-06** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-24** Referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-07-03** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2483.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-12** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2013-08-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
- **2013-08-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-08-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 140, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26a2a7e9-4317-4ffa-9e2e-9c90d7ed6ec4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).