republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-833.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergencies: Office of Emergency Services: guidelines: alert and warning systems."
description: "The California Emergency Services Act establishes the Office of Emergency Services (OES) in the office of the Governor and provides that OES is responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or manmade disasters and emergencies. The act also provides for systems for the public dissemination of alerts regarding missing children, attacks upon law enforcement officers, and missing persons who are 65 years of age or older, among others, and requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to activate these systems and issue alerts upon the request of a law enforcement agency if certain conditions are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 833"
citation: "California SB 833 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergencies: Office of Emergency Services: guidelines: alert and warning systems."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGuire"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbb3236c-cfdb-4391-bc09-f0eefc92134f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB833"
source_hash: "df6a79ac8af5be797c59defd6a3dd2345a043659aeb4c0e4a3ada800b74272c6"
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 SB 833 (20172018) — Emergencies: Office of Emergency Services: guidelines: alert and warning systems.

The California Emergency Services Act establishes the Office of Emergency Services (OES) in the office of the Governor and provides that OES is responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or manmade disasters and emergencies. The act also provides for systems for the public dissemination of alerts regarding missing children, attacks upon law enforcement officers, and missing persons who are 65 years of age or older, among others, and requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to activate these systems and issue alerts upon the request of a law enforcement agency if certain conditions are met.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/04/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB833&version=20170SB83399INT)
2. **06/21/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB833&version=20170SB83398AMD)
3. **07/05/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB833&version=20170SB83397AMD)
4. **08/06/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB833&version=20170SB83396AMD)
5. **08/20/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB833&version=20170SB83395AMD)
6. **09/21/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB833&version=20170SB83393CHP)
7. **SB833** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB833)
8. **08/31/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB833&version=20170SB83394ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 833 McGuire Senate Third Reading By AGUIAR-CURRY — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB833 McGuire et al. Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent SB833 McGuire et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McGuire — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — principal coauthor (person)
- Chang — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — author (person)
- Hill — author (person)
- Levine — principal coauthor (person)
- Wood — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-04** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-01-05** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 4.
- **2018-01-16** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-15** Set for hearing April 10.
- **2018-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 4604.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-13** Set for hearing April 23.
- **2018-04-23** April 23 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2018-05-18** Set for hearing May 25.
- **2018-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4298.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-29** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2018-05-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4451.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-31** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-04** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** June 20 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2018-06-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-07-03** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2018-07-05** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-08-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-08-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-20** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-08-20** Ordered to third reading.
- **2018-08-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6578.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-28** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2018-08-28** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5875.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2018-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 617, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbb3236c-cfdb-4391-bc09-f0eefc92134f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).