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Bill	Telecommunications: automatic dialing-announcing devices: artificial voices.	Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to control and regulate the connection of an automatic dialing-announcing device, as defined, to a telephone line. Existing law imposes various requirements on the use of an automatic dialing-announcing device, including that whenever telephone calls are placed through the use of an automatic dialing-announcing device, the device may be operated only after an unrecorded, natural voice announcement has been made to the person called by the person calling. Existing law requires the announcement to state the nature of the call and provide specified information about the business or organization being represented, if any, and inquire as to whether the person called consents to hear the prerecorded message.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2905	California AB 2905 (20232024)	bill	Telecommunications artificial voices automatic dialing-announcing devices	enacted	Low	7	24	6	2024-02-15	2024-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/69f79f10-b3b5-442e-8d8b-24a4545bec43	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2905	593b0c0711183081cbaaf98129f6357c3c6f91be1e6ad0936a72b68ee5dd1ee5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2905 (20232024) — Telecommunications: automatic dialing-announcing devices: artificial voices.

Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to control and regulate the connection of an automatic dialing-announcing device, as defined, to a telephone line. Existing law imposes various requirements on the use of an automatic dialing-announcing device, including that whenever telephone calls are placed through the use of an automatic dialing-announcing device, the device may be operated only after an unrecorded, natural voice announcement has been made to the person called by the person calling. Existing law requires the announcement to state the nature of the call and provide specified information about the business or organization being represented, if any, and inquire as to whether the person called consents to hear the prerecorded message.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/15/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/25/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/20/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2905 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2905 Low Consent Calendar Second Day — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2905 Low et al. By Dodd — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Low — primary (person)
• Jim Patterson — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2024-03-21 Referred to Coms. on C. & C. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 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
• 2024-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on C. & C. referral-committee
• 2024-04-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 10). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-15 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-25 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-05-15 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5446.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-29 Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5204.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-20 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2024-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2024-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 316, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/69f79f10-b3b5-442e-8d8b-24a4545bec43. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).