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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Emergency services: endangered missing advisory."
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description: "Existing law requires the California Highway Patrol to activate the Emergency Alert System at the request of an authorized person at a law enforcement agency if a child 17 years of age or younger, or an individual with a proven mental or physical disability, has been abducted and is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death, and other conditions are met."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20232024"
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identifier: "AB 946"
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citation: "California AB 946 (20232024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Emergency services", "endangered missing advisory"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Nguyen"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2023-02-14"
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last_action: "2023-07-21"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41b92592-482a-41a7-aa85-3ce86fe2197e"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB946"
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source_hash: "5550eb767e2a14c01186062d1bc358e6de23bea627cd8aca57e789b23e85c9d0"
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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 946 (20232024) — Emergency services: endangered missing advisory.
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Existing law requires the California Highway Patrol to activate the Emergency Alert System at the request of an authorized person at a law enforcement agency if a child 17 years of age or younger, or an individual with a proven mental or physical disability, has been abducted and is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death, and other conditions are met.
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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. **02/14/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB946&version=20230AB94699INT)
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2. **07/21/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB946&version=20230AB94697CHP)
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3. **AB946** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB946)
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4. **06/30/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB946&version=20230AB94698ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
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- Consent Calendar AB946 Stephanie Nguyen — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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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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- AB 946 Stephanie Nguyen Consent Calendar Second Day — **66–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Stephanie Nguyen — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2023-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
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- **2023-03-16** Referred to Com. on E.M. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2023-05-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-05-04** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-05-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 1523.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2023-05-24** Referred to Com. on PUB S. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-26** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
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- **2023-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-06-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1828.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-06-29** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2023-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2023-07-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2023-07-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 93, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
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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/41b92592-482a-41a7-aa85-3ce86fe2197e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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