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Bill	Emergency services: endangered missing advisory.	Existing law requires the California Highway Patrol to activate the Emergency Alert System at the request of an authorized person at a law enforcement agency if a child 17 years of age or younger, or an individual with a proven mental or physical disability, has been abducted and is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death, and other conditions are met.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 946	California AB 946 (20232024)	bill	Emergency services endangered missing advisory	enacted	Stephanie Nguyen	4	17	5	2023-02-14	2023-07-21	openstates	ocd-bill/41b92592-482a-41a7-aa85-3ce86fe2197e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB946	5550eb767e2a14c01186062d1bc358e6de23bea627cd8aca57e789b23e85c9d0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 946 (20232024) — Emergency services: endangered missing advisory.

Existing law requires the California Highway Patrol to activate the Emergency Alert System at the request of an authorized person at a law enforcement agency if a child 17 years of age or younger, or an individual with a proven mental or physical disability, has been abducted and is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death, and other conditions are met.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/21/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB946 (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB946 Stephanie Nguyen — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 946 Stephanie Nguyen Consent Calendar Second Day — 66–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Stephanie Nguyen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2023-03-16 Referred to Com. on E.M. referral-committee
• 2023-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-03 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 1523.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-24 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2023-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-06-26 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-06-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1828.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-29 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2023-07-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2023-07-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-07-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 93, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/41b92592-482a-41a7-aa85-3ce86fe2197e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).