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Bill	Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program.	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law establishes the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program Administrative Committee Fund in the State Treasury and provides that moneys in the funds are held in trust and may be expended only to accomplish specified purposes. Existing law establishes the requirements for the deaf and disabled telecommunications program and requires the commission, until January 1, 2020, to establish a rate recovery mechanism through a surcharge not to exceed 12 of 1% uniformly applied to a subscriber's intrastate telephone service, other than one-way radio paging service and universal telephone service, to allow providers of equipment and service pursuant to the program to recover their costs as they are incurred.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 497	California AB 497 (20192020)	bill	Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program.	enacted	Santiago	6	24	7	2019-02-12	2019-09-12	openstates	ocd-bill/0ea45816-10a2-4f13-a16e-b00f833e6e9c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB497	0aa60b0a6514bf31717076816328b2bb89f69ba572c40fb923e502e254665aef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 497 (20192020) — Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law establishes the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program Administrative Committee Fund in the State Treasury and provides that moneys in the funds are held in trust and may be expended only to accomplish specified purposes. Existing law establishes the requirements for the deaf and disabled telecommunications program and requires the commission, until January 1, 2020, to establish a rate recovery mechanism through a surcharge not to exceed 12 of 1% uniformly applied to a subscriber's intrastate telephone service, other than one-way radio paging service and universal telephone service, to allow providers of equipment and service pursuant to the program to recover their costs as they are incurred.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/22/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/14/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/12/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB497 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB497 Santiago By Rubio Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 497 Santiago Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 66–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 497 Santiago Third Reading Urgency — 66–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Santiago — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-13 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
• 2019-02-21 Referred to Com. on C. & C. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-05-01 In committee: Set, second hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-28 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 2026.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2019-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-14 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-26 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2287.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 2894.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2019-09-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-09-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 287, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0ea45816-10a2-4f13-a16e-b00f833e6e9c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).