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Bill	Government interruption of communications.	Existing law authorizes a supervising law enforcement official with probable cause to believe that a person is holding hostages and is committing a crime, or is barricaded and is resisting apprehension through the use or threatened use of force, to order a telephone corporation security employee to arrange to cut, reroute, or divert telephone lines for the purpose of preventing telephone communication by the suspected person with any person other than a peace officer or person authorized by a peace officer. Existing law, until January 1, 2020, prohibits a governmental entity and a provider of communications service acting at the request of a governmental entity from interrupting communications service for the purpose of protecting public safety or preventing the use of communications service for an illegal purpose, except pursuant to an order signed by a judicial officer, as specified. Existing law allows the order to authorize an interruption of communications service only for as long as is reasonably necessary, requires that the interruption cease once the danger that justified the interruption is abated, and requires the order to specify a process to immediately serve notice on the communications service provider to cease the interruption. Existing law authorizes interruption of a communications service without first obtaining a court order under extreme emergency situations, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1034	California AB 1034 (20172018)	bill	Government interruption of communications.	enacted	Chau	7	29	9	2017-02-16	2017-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/3b05c02b-0925-419a-bd69-ec252c58a26d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1034	b1e66fb6dcb175c9864ea3bacc177181c44d69866d062c3ac0408acf0b076624	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1034 (20172018) — Government interruption of communications.

Existing law authorizes a supervising law enforcement official with probable cause to believe that a person is holding hostages and is committing a crime, or is barricaded and is resisting apprehension through the use or threatened use of force, to order a telephone corporation security employee to arrange to cut, reroute, or divert telephone lines for the purpose of preventing telephone communication by the suspected person with any person other than a peace officer or person authorized by a peace officer. Existing law, until January 1, 2020, prohibits a governmental entity and a provider of communications service acting at the request of a governmental entity from interrupting communications service for the purpose of protecting public safety or preventing the use of communications service for an illegal purpose, except pursuant to an order signed by a judicial officer, as specified. Existing law allows the order to authorize an interruption of communications service only for as long as is reasonably necessary, requires that the interruption cease once the danger that justified the interruption is abated, and requires the order to specify a process to immediately serve notice on the communications service provider to cease the interruption. Existing law authorizes interruption of a communications service without first obtaining a court order under extreme emergency situations, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/17/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/05/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/24/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1034 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/07/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1034 CHAU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1034 CHAU Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Energy, Utilities and Communications] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1034 Chau By Roth — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chau — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2017-03-09 Referred to Coms. on C. & C. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-04-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-05-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-24 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1857.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S., E., U. & C. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E., U. & C. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-21 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2017-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-24 From Consent Calendar.
• 2017-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-08-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2346.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-05 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2927.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2017-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 322, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3b05c02b-0925-419a-bd69-ec252c58a26d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).