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Bill	Communications: Voice over Internet Protocol and Internet Protocol enabled communications service.	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations, as defined.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 1161	California SB 1161 (20112012)	bill	Communications: Voice over Internet Protocol and Internet Protocol enabled communications service.	enacted	Padilla	10	31	10	2012-02-22	2012-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/1710d8d9-df1c-4fc2-bd25-54205f05f04d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1161	9b0f38dff7dd7528837c64ae8d5b58853c83ea6f383ac81abf0d23f14b81f32d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1161 (20112012) — Communications: Voice over Internet Protocol and Internet Protocol enabled communications service.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations, as defined.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/26/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/29/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/12/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/21/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/16/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/28/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB1161 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/23/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Set, first hearing. Failed passage in Committee. Reconsideration granted. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 30–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 13–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1161 Padilla Senate Third Reading By BRADFORD — 63–12 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 2–5 (fail) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB1161 Padilla Concurrence — 28–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Padilla — primary (person)
• Bradford — principal coauthor (person)
• Buchanan — coauthor (person)
• Correa — coauthor (person)
• Fletcher — coauthor (person)
• Fuller — coauthor (person)
• Gorell — coauthor (person)
• Hall — coauthor (person)
• Lieu — coauthor (person)
• Ma — coauthor (person)
• Price — coauthor (person)
• Roger Hernández — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Strickland — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-22 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2012-02-23 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2012-03-01 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2012-03-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2012-03-30 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2012-04-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 3205.) (April 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-05-04 Set for hearing May 14.
• 2012-05-14 Set, first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 2. Noes 5. Page 3513.) Reconsideration granted. committee-failure
• 2012-05-16 Set for hearing May 21.
• 2012-05-21 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2012-05-22 Set for hearing May 24.
• 2012-05-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3591.) (May 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 6. Page 3705.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2012-06-12 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-20 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (June 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (August 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-16 Read third time and amended. (Page 5943.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-16 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 12. Page 6017.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-21 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-22 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 7. Page 4677.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 733, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1710d8d9-df1c-4fc2-bd25-54205f05f04d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).