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type: "Bill"
title: "Land use: permitting: wireless communications: emergency standby generators."
description: "Under existing law, a wireless telecommunications collocation facility, as specified, is subject to a city or county discretionary permit and is required to comply with specified criteria, but a collocation facility, which is the placement or installation of wireless facilities, including antennas and related equipment, on or immediately adjacent to that wireless telecommunications collocation facility, is a permitted use not subject to a city or county discretionary permit. Existing law defines various terms for these purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 2421"
citation: "California AB 2421 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Land use: permitting: wireless communications: emergency standby generators."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-02-19"
last_action: "2020-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b12916c4-d153-4c3c-82bd-47266e1aad04"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2421"
source_hash: "d0e5b473e246ae5da32f98a90281ffebb46557d6e1ac176a613913a0eb27789d"
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 2421 (20192020) — Land use: permitting: wireless communications: emergency standby generators.
Under existing law, a wireless telecommunications collocation facility, as specified, is subject to a city or county discretionary permit and is required to comply with specified criteria, but a collocation facility, which is the placement or installation of wireless facilities, including antennas and related equipment, on or immediately adjacent to that wireless telecommunications collocation facility, is a permitted use not subject to a city or county discretionary permit. Existing law defines various terms for these purposes.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/19/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2421&version=20190AB242199INT)
2. **03/12/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2421&version=20190AB242198AMD)
3. **06/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2421&version=20190AB242197AMD)
4. **07/22/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2421&version=20190AB242196AMD)
5. **07/31/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2421&version=20190AB242195AMD)
6. **09/29/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2421&version=20190AB242193CHP)
7. **AB2421** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2421)
8. **09/01/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2421&version=20190AB242194ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 2421 Quirk Assembly Third Reading By RIVAS, L. — **760** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **180** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **80** (pass) · lower
- AB 2421 Quirk Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **720** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2421 Quirk et al. By Hertzberg — **341** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Quirk — primary (person)
- Nielsen — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2020-03-02** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and C. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-03-16** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-06-04** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4789.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-07-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-07-31** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-13** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2020-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 1. Page 4430.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2020-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5367.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2020-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 255, Statutes of 2020.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b12916c4-d153-4c3c-82bd-47266e1aad04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).