republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1699.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telecommunications: mobile internet service providers: first response agencies: emergencies."
description: "Existing law prohibits a mobile internet service provider from engaging in specified actions concerning the treatment of internet traffic, including, among other things, blocking lawful content, applications, services, or nonharmful devices, and impairing or degrading lawful internet traffic on the basis of internet content, application, or service, or use of a nonharmful device, subject to reasonable network management."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1699"
citation: "California AB 1699 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Telecommunications: mobile internet service providers: first response agencies: emergencies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Levine"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ce14380-6c80-43fc-9646-b75285ea82f3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1699"
source_hash: "7856f0febc97e02da019b7961b7f0c9407886874315b725d4b4ee7410a515fea"
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 1699 (20192020) — Telecommunications: mobile internet service providers: first response agencies: emergencies.

Existing law prohibits a mobile internet service provider from engaging in specified actions concerning the treatment of internet traffic, including, among other things, blocking lawful content, applications, services, or nonharmful devices, and impairing or degrading lawful internet traffic on the basis of internet content, application, or service, or use of a nonharmful device, subject to reasonable network management.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1699&version=20190AB169999INT)
2. **04/22/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1699&version=20190AB169998AMD)
3. **06/24/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1699&version=20190AB169997AMD)
4. **08/13/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1699&version=20190AB169996AMD)
5. **09/05/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1699&version=20190AB169995AMD)
6. **10/02/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1699&version=20190AB169993CHP)
7. **AB1699** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1699)
8. **09/16/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1699&version=20190AB169994ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1699 Levine Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1699 Levine By Jackson — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1699 Levine Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Levine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-18** Referred to Coms. on C. & C. and P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on C. & C. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on C. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1572.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-22** Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-06-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-27** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-08-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 10). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-08-13** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2709.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-10** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3252.)
- **2019-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3272.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 398, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ce14380-6c80-43fc-9646-b75285ea82f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).