---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency services: endangered missing advisory."
description: "Existing law requires the California Highway Patrol to activate the Emergency Alert System at the request of an authorized person at a law enforcement agency if a child 17 years of age or younger, or an individual with a proven mental or physical disability, has been abducted and is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death, and other conditions are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 946"
citation: "California AB 946 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency services", "endangered missing advisory"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Nguyen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41b92592-482a-41a7-aa85-3ce86fe2197e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB946"
source_hash: "5550eb767e2a14c01186062d1bc358e6de23bea627cd8aca57e789b23e85c9d0"
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 946 (20232024) — Emergency services: endangered missing advisory.

Existing law requires the California Highway Patrol to activate the Emergency Alert System at the request of an authorized person at a law enforcement agency if a child 17 years of age or younger, or an individual with a proven mental or physical disability, has been abducted and is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death, and other conditions are met.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB946&version=20230AB94699INT)
2. **07/21/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB946&version=20230AB94697CHP)
3. **AB946** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB946)
4. **06/30/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB946&version=20230AB94698ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB946 Stephanie Nguyen — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 946 Stephanie Nguyen Consent Calendar Second Day — **66–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stephanie Nguyen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2023-03-16** Referred to Com. on E.M. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-04** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 1523.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-24** Referred to Com. on PUB S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-26** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1828.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-29** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2023-07-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 93, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41b92592-482a-41a7-aa85-3ce86fe2197e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).