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type: "Bill"
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title: "Emergency services: first responders."
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description: "Under existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, the Governor is authorized to proclaim a state of emergency, as defined, under specified circumstances. The California Emergency Services Act also authorizes the governing body of a city, county, city and county, or an official designated by ordinance adopted by that governing body, to proclaim a local emergency, as defined. Under existing law, the Office of Emergency Services within the Governor's office is required to, among other things, develop curriculum for first responder training, and to adopt standards and procedures for training first responder instructors. A person who violates any provision of the act is guilty of a misdemeanor."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20192020"
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identifier: "AB 1945"
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citation: "California AB 1945 (20192020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Emergency services: first responders."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 24
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2020-01-17"
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last_action: "2020-09-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68eb73b8-16aa-464d-93e5-2f69a7082bbd"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1945"
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source_hash: "b0cb2528712dbff73532dd9795b9fff72279d964f48af050e2deccc16483d0fe"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 1945 (20192020) — Emergency services: first responders.
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Under existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, the Governor is authorized to proclaim a state of emergency, as defined, under specified circumstances. The California Emergency Services Act also authorizes the governing body of a city, county, city and county, or an official designated by ordinance adopted by that governing body, to proclaim a local emergency, as defined. Under existing law, the Office of Emergency Services within the Governor's office is required to, among other things, develop curriculum for first responder training, and to adopt standards and procedures for training first responder instructors. A person who violates any provision of the act is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **01/17/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1945&version=20190AB194599INT)
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2. **05/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1945&version=20190AB194598AMD)
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3. **06/29/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1945&version=20190AB194597AMD)
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4. **09/11/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1945&version=20190AB194595CHP)
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5. **AB1945** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1945)
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6. **09/01/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1945&version=20190AB194596ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **20–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 1945 Salas Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
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- Special Consent AB1945 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 1945 Salas Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **74–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Salas — primary (person)
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- Arambula — coauthor (person)
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- Chiu — coauthor (person)
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- Cooper — coauthor (person)
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- Frazier — coauthor (person)
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- Gipson — coauthor (person)
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- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
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- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
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- Rodriguez — principal coauthor (person)
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- Smith — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-01-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2020-01-18** From printer. May be heard in committee February 17.
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- **2020-01-30** Referred to Coms. on G.O. and P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-05-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2020-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-05-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2020-06-02** Coauthors revised.
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- **2020-06-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2020-06-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2020-06-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4684.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2020-06-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2020-06-23** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-06-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
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- **2020-08-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2020-08-13** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-08-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2020-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2020-08-25** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2020-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4381.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2020-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2020-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5352.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
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- **2020-09-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2020-09-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 68, Statutes of 2020.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68eb73b8-16aa-464d-93e5-2f69a7082bbd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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