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type: "Bill"
title: "Telecommunications: wireless telecommunication facilities."
description: "Existing law requires a city, including a charter city, or county to administratively approve an application for a collocation facility on or immediately adjacent to a wireless telecommunications collocation facility, as defined, through the issuance of a building permit or a nondiscretionary permit, as specified. Existing law prohibits a city or county from taking certain actions as a condition of approval of an application for a permit for construction or reconstruction for a development project for a wireless telecommunications facility."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 57"
citation: "California AB 57 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Telecommunications: wireless telecommunication facilities."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2014-12-02"
last_action: "2015-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d509779-e794-4e63-9b51-17a706d8ed27"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB57"
source_hash: "24df961e0a73fca8ae62d236b24257f5cbdb41190780cb03715422530149212d"
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 57 (20152016) — Telecommunications: wireless telecommunication facilities.
Existing law requires a city, including a charter city, or county to administratively approve an application for a collocation facility on or immediately adjacent to a wireless telecommunications collocation facility, as defined, through the issuance of a building permit or a nondiscretionary permit, as specified. Existing law prohibits a city or county from taking certain actions as a condition of approval of an application for a permit for construction or reconstruction for a development project for a wireless telecommunications facility.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **12/02/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB57&version=20150AB5799INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB57&version=20150AB5798AMD)
3. **04/06/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB57&version=20150AB5797AMD)
4. **07/02/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB57&version=20150AB5796AMD)
5. **07/08/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB57&version=20150AB5795AMD)
6. **08/18/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB57&version=20150AB5794AMD)
7. **10/09/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB57&version=20150AB5792CHP)
8. **AB57** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB57)
9. **08/31/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB57&version=20150AB5793ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. — **70** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — **81** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **61** (pass) · upper
- Be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **110** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB57 Quirk By Hueso — **286** (pass) · upper
- AB 57 QUIRK Assembly Third Reading — **664** (pass) · lower
- AB 57 QUIRK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **668** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Quirk — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2014-12-02** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2014-12-03** From printer. May be heard in committee January 2.
- **2015-01-05** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2015-03-26** Referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** 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, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-06** 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, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-13** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 4. Page 1552.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-04** Referred to Coms. on E., U., & C. and GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 16). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-07-02** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 15). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 6. Page 2154.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 8. Page 2604.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 685, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d509779-e794-4e63-9b51-17a706d8ed27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).