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Bill	Communications: wireless telecommunications and broadband facilities.	Pursuant to existing federal law, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted decisions and rules establishing reasonable time periods within which a local government is required to act on a collocation or siting application for certain wireless communications facilities.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 537	California AB 537 (20212022)	bill	Communications: wireless telecommunications and broadband facilities.	enacted	Quirk	10	30	10	2021-02-10	2021-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/49817bca-e2b4-4683-946f-7f8dec6507da	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB537	f8d6a1d401b084606d75c47b909be5b0b64f6bc6f0b9d17159742519cb34a92a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 537 (20212022) — Communications: wireless telecommunications and broadband facilities.

Pursuant to existing federal law, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted decisions and rules establishing reasonable time periods within which a local government is required to act on a collocation or siting application for certain wireless communications facilities.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/11/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/27/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/01/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/13/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/04/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB537 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/07/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Communications and Conveyance] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB537 Quirk By Hertzberg — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 537 Quirk Assembly Third Reading — 74–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 537 Quirk Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Quirk — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2021-03-11 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and C. & C. referral-committee
• 2021-03-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-15 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2021-03-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2021-04-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on C. & C. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on C. & C. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-27 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1577.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 1713.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 8). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2286.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-02 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 14. Page 2703.)
• 2021-09-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2709.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2021-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 467, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/49817bca-e2b4-4683-946f-7f8dec6507da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).