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Bill	Telecommunications: automatic dialing-announcing devices: pupil health and safety exemption.	Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to control and regulate the use of automatic dialing-announcing devices to a telephone line and specifies the hours during which the devices may not be operated. Existing law exempts from that control and regulation certain entities that use an automatic dialing-announcing device under various situations, including the contacting of parents or guardians of pupils by schools regarding attendance and the placing of calls by law enforcement agencies, fire protection agencies, and public health agencies for specified purposes relating to public safety and emergencies.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2906	California AB 2906 (20212022)	bill	Telecommunications: automatic dialing-announcing devices: pupil health and safety exemption.	enacted	Patterson	4	15	4	2022-02-18	2022-06-21	openstates	ocd-bill/b6cbb5e5-a13e-4103-9513-a86acf2012dd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2906	0d4f0ae1153d694a7af65024b5fc2a29dadbd70a299b255887556d11a535f7ba	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2906 (20212022) — Telecommunications: automatic dialing-announcing devices: pupil health and safety exemption.

Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to control and regulate the use of automatic dialing-announcing devices to a telephone line and specifies the hours during which the devices may not be operated. Existing law exempts from that control and regulation certain entities that use an automatic dialing-announcing device under various situations, including the contacting of parents or guardians of pupils by schools regarding attendance and the placing of calls by law enforcement agencies, fire protection agencies, and public health agencies for specified purposes relating to public safety and emergencies.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/21/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB2906 (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/10/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB2906 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2906 Patterson Consent Calendar Second Day — 68–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Patterson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-18 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2022-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2022-03-17 Referred to Com. on C. & C. referral-committee
• 2022-04-07 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-18 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 4373.) 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
• 2022-06-01 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 31). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-06-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4129.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-06-09 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2022-06-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2022-06-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-06-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 36, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b6cbb5e5-a13e-4103-9513-a86acf2012dd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).