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Bill	Land use: permitting: wireless communications: emergency standby generators.	Under existing law, a wireless telecommunications collocation facility, as specified, is subject to a city or county discretionary permit and is required to comply with specified criteria, but a collocation facility, which is the placement or installation of wireless facilities, including antennas and related equipment, on or immediately adjacent to that wireless telecommunications collocation facility, is a permitted use not subject to a city or county discretionary permit. Existing law defines various terms for these purposes.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2421	California AB 2421 (20192020)	bill	Land use: permitting: wireless communications: emergency standby generators.	enacted	Quirk	8	24	6	2020-02-19	2020-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/b12916c4-d153-4c3c-82bd-47266e1aad04	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2421	d0e5b473e246ae5da32f98a90281ffebb46557d6e1ac176a613913a0eb27789d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2421 (20192020) — Land use: permitting: wireless communications: emergency standby generators.

Under existing law, a wireless telecommunications collocation facility, as specified, is subject to a city or county discretionary permit and is required to comply with specified criteria, but a collocation facility, which is the placement or installation of wireless facilities, including antennas and related equipment, on or immediately adjacent to that wireless telecommunications collocation facility, is a permitted use not subject to a city or county discretionary permit. Existing law defines various terms for these purposes.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/12/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/22/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/31/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2421 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2421 Quirk Assembly Third Reading By RIVAS, L. — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2421 Quirk Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2421 Quirk et al. By Hertzberg — 34–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Quirk — primary (person)
• Nielsen — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2020-03-02 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and C. & C. referral-committee
• 2020-03-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-03-16 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2020-05-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-06-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-06-04 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4789.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-07-01 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2020-07-22 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-07-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-07-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-13 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2020-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 1. Page 4430.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5367.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 255, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b12916c4-d153-4c3c-82bd-47266e1aad04. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).