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Bill	Telecommunications: Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge.	Existing law establishes the State Emergency Telephone Number Account in the General Fund, pursuant to which funds derived from a surcharge imposed on amounts paid by every person in the state for intrastate telephone communication service may be appropriated by the Legislature for specified purposes, including costs of administering, operating, and maintaining the state "911" emergency telephone number system.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 912	California AB 912 (20092010)	bill	Telecommunications: Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge.	enacted	Torres	7	27	7	2009-02-26	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/083e221d-f97e-4eb1-a810-8577aa8419d6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB912	b416c6b15be03e1364fb6a810a5ed0eacf4f47804915113eb045482cc591f963	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 912 (20092010) — Telecommunications: Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge.

Existing law establishes the State Emergency Telephone Number Account in the General Fund, pursuant to which funds derived from a surcharge imposed on amounts paid by every person in the state for intrastate telephone communication service may be appropriated by the Legislature for specified purposes, including costs of administering, operating, and maintaining the state "911" emergency telephone number system.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/27/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/01/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/17/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB912 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/09/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Revenue and Taxation. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 912 TORRES Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB912 Torres By Wolk — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Revenue and Taxation. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 912 TORRES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Torres — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
• 2009-03-26 Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2009-04-23 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-04-27 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2009-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-04-30 (Ayes 48. Noes 22. Page 1168.)
• 2009-05-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2009-05-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-03 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 28. Page 2066.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-18 Referred to Coms. on E., U., & C. and REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2009-06-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-07-08 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (July 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-07-08 Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-08-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-08-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.) (August 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-08-19 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-31 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 10. Page 2008.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-03 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 48. Noes 25. Page 2992.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-11 Enrolled and to the Governor at 7 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 489, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/083e221d-f97e-4eb1-a810-8577aa8419d6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).