republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1717.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telecommunications: prepaid mobile telephony services: state surcharge and fees: local charges collection."
description: "(1) The existing Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act generally imposes a surcharge on amounts paid by every person in the state for intrastate telephone service to provide revenues sufficient to fund \"911\" emergency telephone system costs. Amounts are determined annually by the Office of Emergency Services, and upon collection are paid to the State Board of Equalization on a monthly basis by the telephone service supplier and are deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the State Emergency Telephone Number Account in the General Fund, to be expended for limited purposes, including to pay the Department of General Services for its costs in administration of the \"911\" emergency telephone number system."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1717"
citation: "California AB 1717 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Telecommunications: prepaid mobile telephony services: state surcharge and fees: local charges collection."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Perea"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 34
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2014-02-13"
last_action: "2014-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78b69e9c-4da8-4377-8512-aecaa3ff5015"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1717"
source_hash: "2fb7cde332def8a6c952b2e5b59193e613212c50e0508d032386e3e64f430eed"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1717 (20132014) — Telecommunications: prepaid mobile telephony services: state surcharge and fees: local charges collection.

(1) The existing Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act generally imposes a surcharge on amounts paid by every person in the state for intrastate telephone service to provide revenues sufficient to fund "911" emergency telephone system costs. Amounts are determined annually by the Office of Emergency Services, and upon collection are paid to the State Board of Equalization on a monthly basis by the telephone service supplier and are deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the State Emergency Telephone Number Account in the General Fund, to be expended for limited purposes, including to pay the Department of General Services for its costs in administration of the "911" emergency telephone number system.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1717&version=20130AB171799INT)
2. **04/02/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1717&version=20130AB171798AMD)
3. **05/28/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1717&version=20130AB171797AMD)
4. **07/02/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1717&version=20130AB171796AMD)
5. **08/22/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1717&version=20130AB171795AMD)
6. **09/30/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1717&version=20130AB171793CHP)
7. **AB1717** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1717)
8. **09/04/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1717&version=20130AB171794ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1717 Perea By Hill Urgency Clause — **29–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Governance and Finance. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1717 PEREA Third Reading Urgency — **71–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Revenue and Taxation. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1717 PEREA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **70–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Perea — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2014-02-27** Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-02** 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`
- **2014-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-04-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to REV. & TAX. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-23** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5065.)
- **2014-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-28** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5219.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-29** Assembly Rule 69(d) suspended. (Page 5325.)
- **2014-05-29** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 2. Page 5340.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-06-05** Referred to Coms. on E., U., & C. and GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-07-01** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-07-02** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-04** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2014-08-11** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2014-08-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-22** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-26** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 2. Page 4855.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 21. Page 6571.)
- **2014-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 5. Page 6583.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2014-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 885, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78b69e9c-4da8-4377-8512-aecaa3ff5015`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).