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Bill	Telecommunications: universal service: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).	(1) Existing law, the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, establishes a program of cooperative federalism for the regulation of telecommunications to attain the goal of local competition, while implementing specific, predictable, and sufficient federal and state mechanisms to preserve and advance universal service, consistent with certain universal service principles.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 841	California AB 841 (20112012)	bill	Telecommunications: universal service: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).	enacted	Buchanan	8	27	7	2011-02-17	2011-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/3217784f-9801-4202-b6ec-55ee03d1fa19	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB841	c1bbb1fa318896a88696e0d92f08de1085191f00d52c6e5bb7a8783875108492	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 841 (20112012) — Telecommunications: universal service: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

(1) Existing law, the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, establishes a program of cooperative federalism for the regulation of telecommunications to attain the goal of local competition, while implementing specific, predictable, and sufficient federal and state mechanisms to preserve and advance universal service, consistent with certain universal service principles.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/31/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/05/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/11/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/23/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB841 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/31/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 841 BUCHANAN Third Reading Urgency — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB841 Buchanan By Padilla Urgency Clause — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Utilities and Commerce. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Buchanan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2011-03-31 Referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2011-03-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2011-05-04 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-05 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-09 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2011-05-10 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-11 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-12 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-05-12 Measure version as amended on May 11 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2011-05-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-24 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1704.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-08 Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. referral-committee
• 2011-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-29 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2077.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-29 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2011-09-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 685, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3217784f-9801-4202-b6ec-55ee03d1fa19. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).