---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency telephone system: abuse."
description: "Emergency telephone system: abuse."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 1976"
citation: "California AB 1976 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency telephone system: abuse."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Benoit"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2008-02-14"
last_action: "2008-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f22ebab-6767-4181-8b76-7405e07f6a6f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1976"
source_hash: "65351c3eff2ce677ba596d79cbf7e2cce2fd759b5bcc38d76d9c7c8967c3eadc"
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 1976 (20072008) — Emergency telephone system: abuse.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/08 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1976&version=20070AB197699INT)
2. **03/24/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1976&version=20070AB197698AMD)
3. **04/17/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1976&version=20070AB197697AMD)
4. **07/10/08 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1976&version=20070AB197695CHP)
5. **AB1976** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1976)
6. **06/27/08 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1976&version=20070AB197696ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent #30 AB1976 Benoit By Runner — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1976 BENOIT Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Benoit — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2008-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2008-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2008-02-28** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2008-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Public Safety Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2008-03-25** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-16** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 15). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2008-04-17** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2008-04-21** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-24** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2008-04-28** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-05-01** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 2. Page 4929.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-05-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2008-05-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2008-06-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-06-11** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-06-26** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4456.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-06-26** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2008-07-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2008-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2008-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 89, Statutes of 2008.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f22ebab-6767-4181-8b76-7405e07f6a6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).