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| Bill | Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act. | The Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act generally imposes a surcharge on amounts paid by every person in the state for intrastate telephone communication service and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service that provides access to the 911 emergency system. Under the act, the surcharge is imposed at a percentage rate not less than 0.5% nor more than 0.75% of those charges that the Office of Emergency Services annually estimates, pursuant to a specified formula, will produce sufficient revenue to fund the current fiscal year's 911 costs, including the costs it expects to incur to plan, test, implement, and operate Next Generation 911 technology and services, as specified. Existing law requires the surcharge to be collected by a service supplier, and remitted to, and administered by, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. Existing law makes certain violations of the Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act a crime. | us/states/ca | California Legislature | 20192020 | SB 96 | California SB 96 (20192020) |
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California SB 96 (20192020) — Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act.
The Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act generally imposes a surcharge on amounts paid by every person in the state for intrastate telephone communication service and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service that provides access to the 911 emergency system. Under the act, the surcharge is imposed at a percentage rate not less than 0.5% nor more than 0.75% of those charges that the Office of Emergency Services annually estimates, pursuant to a specified formula, will produce sufficient revenue to fund the current fiscal year's 911 costs, including the costs it expects to incur to plan, test, implement, and operate Next Generation 911 technology and services, as specified. Existing law requires the surcharge to be collected by a service supplier, and remitted to, and administered by, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. Existing law makes certain violations of the Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act a crime.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 01/10/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
- 06/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
- 07/01/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- SB96 (committee substitute) — source
- 06/24/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- SB 96 B. & F. R. Third Reading Urgency By TING — 56–14 (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB96 B. & F.R. (Mitchell) Urgency Clause Concurrence — 29–10 (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB96 B. & F.R. — 27–9 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-01-10 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
introduction, reading-1 - 2019-01-11 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10.
- 2019-01-24 Referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
referral-committee - 2019-04-08 Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 582.)
- 2019-04-08 Ordered to second reading.
- 2019-04-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2019-04-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 670.) Ordered to the Assembly.
passage, reading-3, reading-1 - 2019-04-11 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
reading-1 - 2019-05-02 Referred to Com. on BUDGET.
referral-committee - 2019-06-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET.
reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee - 2019-06-17 Withdrawn from committee.
- 2019-06-17 Ordered to third reading.
- 2019-06-17 Assembly Rule 63 and 96 suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 12. Page 2297.)
- 2019-06-17 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 56. Noes 14. Page 2309.) Ordered to the Senate.
passage, reading-3, reading-1 - 2019-06-17 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- 2019-06-20 Urgency clause adopted.
- 2019-06-20 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 1670.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2019-06-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- 2019-07-01 Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature - 2019-07-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 54, Statutes of 2019.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/02874c9c-0492-4d5b-95d7-ddbb184d74cc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).