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Bill	Office of Emergency Services: emergency information: study.	Existing law establishes in state government, within the office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services. Existing law requires the office to be responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or manmade disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters to people and property. Existing law, the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act, requires every local public agency, as defined, to have an emergency communication system and requires the digits "911" to be the primary emergency telephone number within the system. Existing law also requires the office to develop a plan and timeline of target dates for the testing, implementation, and operation of a Next Generation 911 emergency communication system, including text to 911 service, throughout the state. Existing law creates in state government the State 911 Advisory Board, which advises the office on, among other things, policies, practices, and procedures for the California 911 Emergency Communications Office.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 911	California AB 911 (20192020)	bill	Office of Emergency Services: emergency information: study.	enacted	Rodriguez	10	32	11	2019-02-20	2019-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/a0a0d9e8-d927-4501-8767-33014477166c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB911	a149d023e2530469dffa90e836e7379217e2dbfb6788a5c708e8075d0a938020	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 911 (20192020) — Office of Emergency Services: emergency information: study.

Existing law establishes in state government, within the office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services. Existing law requires the office to be responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or manmade disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters to people and property. Existing law, the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act, requires every local public agency, as defined, to have an emergency communication system and requires the digits "911" to be the primary emergency telephone number within the system. Existing law also requires the office to develop a plan and timeline of target dates for the testing, implementation, and operation of a Next Generation 911 emergency communication system, including text to 911 service, throughout the state. Existing law creates in state government the State 911 Advisory Board, which advises the office on, among other things, policies, practices, and procedures for the California 911 Emergency Communications Office.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/29/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/17/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/11/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/09/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB911 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/11/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 911 Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB911 Rodriguez By Monning — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Energy, Utilities and Communications] — 14–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 911 Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Governmental Organization] — 13–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rodriguez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2019-03-21 Referred to Coms. on C. & C. and G.O. referral-committee
• 2019-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on C. & C. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on C. & C. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-11 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-29 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1980.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Coms. on G.O., E., U. & C. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E., U. & C. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2494.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3103.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 686, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a0a0d9e8-d927-4501-8767-33014477166c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).