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type: "Bill"
title: "Telecommunications: automatic dialing-announcing devices: pupil health and safety exemption."
description: "Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to control and regulate the use of automatic dialing-announcing devices to a telephone line and specifies the hours during which the devices may not be operated. Existing law exempts from that control and regulation certain entities that use an automatic dialing-announcing device under various situations, including the contacting of parents or guardians of pupils by schools regarding attendance and the placing of calls by law enforcement agencies, fire protection agencies, and public health agencies for specified purposes relating to public safety and emergencies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2906"
citation: "California AB 2906 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Telecommunications: automatic dialing-announcing devices: pupil health and safety exemption."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patterson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6cbb5e5-a13e-4103-9513-a86acf2012dd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2906"
source_hash: "0d4f0ae1153d694a7af65024b5fc2a29dadbd70a299b255887556d11a535f7ba"
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 2906 (20212022) — Telecommunications: automatic dialing-announcing devices: pupil health and safety exemption.
Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to control and regulate the use of automatic dialing-announcing devices to a telephone line and specifies the hours during which the devices may not be operated. Existing law exempts from that control and regulation certain entities that use an automatic dialing-announcing device under various situations, including the contacting of parents or guardians of pupils by schools regarding attendance and the placing of calls by law enforcement agencies, fire protection agencies, and public health agencies for specified purposes relating to public safety and emergencies.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/18/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2906&version=20210AB290699INT)
2. **06/21/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2906&version=20210AB290697CHP)
3. **AB2906** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2906)
4. **06/10/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2906&version=20210AB290698ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **110** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **120** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB2906 — **380** (pass) · upper
- AB 2906 Patterson Consent Calendar Second Day — **680** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Patterson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-02-18** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2022-03-17** Referred to Com. on C. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-18** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4373.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-04-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-04** Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 31). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4129.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-09** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2022-06-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 36, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6cbb5e5-a13e-4103-9513-a86acf2012dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).