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Bill	Telecommunications: universal service programs: California Advanced Services Fund.	Existing law, the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, establishes a program of cooperative federalism for the regulation of telecommunications to attain the goal of local competition, while implementing specific, predictable, and sufficient federal and state mechanisms to preserve and advance universal service, consistent with certain universal service principles. The universal service principles include the principle that consumers in all regions of the nation, including low-income consumers and those in rural, insular, and high-cost areas, should have access to telecommunications and information services, including interexchange services and advanced telecommunications and information services, that are reasonably comparable to those services provided in urban areas and that are available at rates that are reasonably comparable to rates charged for similar services in urban areas. The act authorizes each state to adopt regulations to provide for additional definitions and standards to preserve and advance universal service within the state, only to the extent that they adopt additional specific, predictable, and sufficient mechanisms that do not rely on or burden federal universal service support mechanisms.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1299	California AB 1299 (20132014)	bill	Telecommunications: universal service programs: California Advanced Services Fund.	enacted	Bradford	8	28	8	2013-02-22	2013-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/fe603d66-f13a-42b7-b9c9-82996fc767be	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1299	ba9047f604e536727f169ae55b166e705906a0c45f55526595b8ecb7f5a4a193	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1299 (20132014) — Telecommunications: universal service programs: California Advanced Services Fund.

Existing law, the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, establishes a program of cooperative federalism for the regulation of telecommunications to attain the goal of local competition, while implementing specific, predictable, and sufficient federal and state mechanisms to preserve and advance universal service, consistent with certain universal service principles. The universal service principles include the principle that consumers in all regions of the nation, including low-income consumers and those in rural, insular, and high-cost areas, should have access to telecommunications and information services, including interexchange services and advanced telecommunications and information services, that are reasonably comparable to those services provided in urban areas and that are available at rates that are reasonably comparable to rates charged for similar services in urban areas. The act authorizes each state to adopt regulations to provide for additional definitions and standards to preserve and advance universal service within the state, only to the extent that they adopt additional specific, predictable, and sufficient mechanisms that do not rely on or burden federal universal service support mechanisms.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/25/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/10/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/04/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/06/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/03/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1299 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/20/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 13–4 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1299 BRADFORD Assembly Third Reading — 58–17 (pass) · lower
• AB 1299 BRADFORD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 55–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 13–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1299 Bradford By Torres — 26–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bradford — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2013-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2013-03-11 Referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2013-04-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-04-22 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-04-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2013-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-24 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-05-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) . committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 1707.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-13 Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. referral-committee
• 2013-07-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-07-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-13 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-09-04 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-04 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 11. Page 2356.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2013-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 18. Page 3304.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2013-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 507, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fe603d66-f13a-42b7-b9c9-82996fc767be. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).