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type: "Bill"
title: "Airports: emergency aircraft flights for medical purposes."
description: "Existing law exempts an emergency aircraft flight for medical purposes, as defined, by law enforcement, firefighting, military, or certain other persons, from local ordinances adopted by a city, county, or city and county, that restrict flight departures and arrivals to particular hours of the day or night, that restrict the departure or arrival of aircraft based upon the aircraft's noise level, or that restrict the operation of certain types of aircraft."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1660"
citation: "California AB 1660 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Airports: emergency aircraft flights for medical purposes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2010-01-19"
last_action: "2010-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10761499-07bc-4156-b531-b7956d88f001"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1660"
source_hash: "1f6523368c0286c17a8234ce26e7ed42b5ddbab4eb1420ed4e735795db0656e0"
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 1660 (20092010) — Airports: emergency aircraft flights for medical purposes.
Existing law exempts an emergency aircraft flight for medical purposes, as defined, by law enforcement, firefighting, military, or certain other persons, from local ordinances adopted by a city, county, or city and county, that restrict flight departures and arrivals to particular hours of the day or night, that restrict the departure or arrival of aircraft based upon the aircraft's noise level, or that restrict the operation of certain types of aircraft.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/19/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1660&version=20090AB166099INT)
2. **07/09/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1660&version=20090AB166097CHP)
3. **AB1660** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1660)
4. **06/25/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1660&version=20090AB166098ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1660 SALAS Consent Calendar Second Day — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1660 Salas — **pass** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Salas — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2010-01-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-01-20** From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
- **2010-01-27** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-23** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (March 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-03-24** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-03-24** Ordered to third reading.
- **2010-04-05** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4452.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-04-29** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-16** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (June 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-17** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 4056.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-06-24** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2010-06-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
- **2010-07-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-07-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 54, Statutes of 2010.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10761499-07bc-4156-b531-b7956d88f001`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).