republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/sb-670.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telecommunications: community isolation outage: notification."
description: "Existing provisions of the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act establish the number \"911\" as the primary emergency telephone number for use in the state and require the provision of enhanced service capable of selective routing, automatic number identification, or automatic location identification. The act requires a telephone corporation serving rural telephone areas that cannot provide enhanced 911 emergency telephone service capable of selective routing, automatic number identification, or automatic location identification to present to the Office of Emergency Services a comprehensive plan detailing a schedule by which their facilities will be converted to be compatible with the enhanced emergency telephone system."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 670"
citation: "California SB 670 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Telecommunications: community isolation outage: notification."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGuire"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 33
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82a6c175-5d48-41d5-8e9a-8199ea219635"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB670"
source_hash: "a6d5fbea2712b1cf9ced369fa4a8a96a594d0910d3991759c8f3f18356c2e469"
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 670 (20192020) — Telecommunications: community isolation outage: notification.

Existing provisions of the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act establish the number "911" as the primary emergency telephone number for use in the state and require the provision of enhanced service capable of selective routing, automatic number identification, or automatic location identification. The act requires a telephone corporation serving rural telephone areas that cannot provide enhanced 911 emergency telephone service capable of selective routing, automatic number identification, or automatic location identification to present to the Office of Emergency Services a comprehensive plan detailing a schedule by which their facilities will be converted to be compatible with the enhanced emergency telephone system.

## 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=201920200SB670&version=20190SB67099INT)
2. **06/10/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB670&version=20190SB67098AMD)
3. **06/26/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB670&version=20190SB67097AMD)
4. **08/13/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB670&version=20190SB67096AMD)
5. **09/03/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB670&version=20190SB67095AMD)
6. **10/02/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB670&version=20190SB67093CHP)
7. **SB670** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB670)
8. **09/13/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB670&version=20190SB67094ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governmental Organization] — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB670 McGuire et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Governmental Organization] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB670 McGuire et al. — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 670 McGuire Third Reading Urgency — **78–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McGuire — primary (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Nielsen — coauthor (person)
- Stern — principal coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** Set for hearing April 2.
- **2019-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 525.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-05** Set for hearing April 9.
- **2019-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0. Page 620.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-26** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2019-05-06** May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2019-05-10** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1107.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1215.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-06** Referred to Coms. on C. & C. and G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-10** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on C. & C. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-12** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (July 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-08-12** (Received at desk July 17 pursuant to JR 61(a)(10)).
- **2019-08-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-21** August 21 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-09-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-10** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3341.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-10** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-09-11** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2019-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2870.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2019-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 412, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82a6c175-5d48-41d5-8e9a-8199ea219635`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).