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Bill	Office of Broadband and Digital Literacy: reports.	Existing law establishes, within the Department of Technology, the Office of Broadband and Digital Literacy. Existing law requires the department to provide oversight and policy input for the statewide open-access middle-mile broadband network. Existing law requires the department to establish a broadband advisory committee to oversee the construction and establishment of the statewide open-access middle-mile broadband network. Existing law requires that committee to be comprised of various representatives, including a representative of the department, the Department of Finance, and 2 ex officio members of the Assembly.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2256	California AB 2256 (20212022)	bill	Office of Broadband and Digital Literacy: reports.	enacted	Quirk-Silva	6	21	6	2022-02-16	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/6f63633c-c933-4418-b70f-2429b0b1ec01	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2256	e00443eace93be03e2354a9cd07e2e9f8da6489cc663318ed315ff37e5fbecb9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2256 (20212022) — Office of Broadband and Digital Literacy: reports.

Existing law establishes, within the Department of Technology, the Office of Broadband and Digital Literacy. Existing law requires the department to provide oversight and policy input for the statewide open-access middle-mile broadband network. Existing law requires the department to establish a broadband advisory committee to oversee the construction and establishment of the statewide open-access middle-mile broadband network. Existing law requires that committee to be comprised of various representatives, including a representative of the department, the Department of Finance, and 2 ex officio members of the Assembly.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/08/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2256 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/24/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2256 Quirk-Silva Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2256 Quirk-Silva Consent Calendar Second Day — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2256 Quirk-Silva By Caballero — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Quirk-Silva — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2022-03-10 Referred to Com. on C. & C. referral-committee
• 2022-03-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on C. & C. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-14 Re-referred to Com. on C. & C. referral-committee
• 2022-03-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-06 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4371.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-04-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-05-04 Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2022-06-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 31). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-08 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4900.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-18 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5982.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2022-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 779, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f63633c-c933-4418-b70f-2429b0b1ec01. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).