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Bill	California Advanced Services Fund: Broadband Adoption Account.	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law requires the commission to develop, implement, and administer the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) program to encourage deployment of high-quality advanced communications services to all Californians that will promote economic growth, job creation, and the substantial social benefits of advanced information and communications technologies. Existing law establishes 5 accounts, including the Broadband Adoption Account, within the CASF. Existing law provides that moneys in the Broadband Adoption Account are available to the commission to award grants to increase publicly available or after school broadband access and digital inclusion, such as grants for digital literacy training programs and public education to communities with limited broadband adoption, including low-income communities, senior communities, and communities facing socioeconomic barriers to broadband adoption. Existing law provides that eligible applicants for moneys from the Broadband Adoption Account are local governments, senior centers, schools, public libraries, nonprofit organizations, and community-based organizations with programs to increase publicly available or after school broadband access and digital inclusion.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1426	California AB 1426 (20212022)	bill	California Advanced Services Fund: Broadband Adoption Account.	enacted	Mathis	6	34	7	2021-02-19	2022-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/5f288ff4-ffcf-4eb9-b12b-9f9e1c76f404	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1426	0269b86f37bc14729782b45ac6a4eabf589940c1be9113fca953fee591f05d6c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1426 (20212022) — California Advanced Services Fund: Broadband Adoption Account.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law requires the commission to develop, implement, and administer the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) program to encourage deployment of high-quality advanced communications services to all Californians that will promote economic growth, job creation, and the substantial social benefits of advanced information and communications technologies. Existing law establishes 5 accounts, including the Broadband Adoption Account, within the CASF. Existing law provides that moneys in the Broadband Adoption Account are available to the commission to award grants to increase publicly available or after school broadband access and digital inclusion, such as grants for digital literacy training programs and public education to communities with limited broadband adoption, including low-income communities, senior communities, and communities facing socioeconomic barriers to broadband adoption. Existing law provides that eligible applicants for moneys from the Broadband Adoption Account are local governments, senior centers, schools, public libraries, nonprofit organizations, and community-based organizations with programs to increase publicly available or after school broadband access and digital inclusion.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/09/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/24/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1426 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1426 Mathis Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB1426 — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1426 Mathis Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1426 Mathis et al. By Grove — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mathis — primary (person)
• Davies — coauthor (person)
• Nielsen — coauthor (person)
• Patterson — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Seyarto — coauthor (person)
• Villapudua — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-03-11 Referred to Com. on C. & C. referral-committee
• 2021-04-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 28). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1338.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-05-19 Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2021-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-21 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-06-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-19 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Bates.
• 2022-06-02 From inactive file.
• 2022-06-02 Ordered to second reading.
• 2022-06-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-06-09 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-06-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-03 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4685.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-15 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2022-08-15 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2022-08-24 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. passage, reading-3
• 2022-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 946, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5f288ff4-ffcf-4eb9-b12b-9f9e1c76f404. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).