California 2021-2022 Regular Session Status: Enacted 13 D cosponsors

SB 4 — Communications: California Advanced Services Fund.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 671, Statutes of 2021.

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed Assembly
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    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced December 07, 2020. Enacted.

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Likely to advance 82% · moderate confidence

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High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 19 sponsors

    1 primary, 18 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (13 D).

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 9 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

(1) Existing law establishes the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, known as "GO-Biz," within the Governor's office to serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. This bill would require the office to coordinate with other relevant state and local agencies and national organizations to explore ways to facilitate streamlining of local land use approvals and construction permit processes for projects related to broadband infrastructure deployment and connectivity. (2) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law requires the commission to develop, implement, and administer the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) to encourage deployment of high-quality advanced communications services to all Californians that will promote economic growth, job creation, and the substantial social benefits of advanced information and communications technologies. Existing law establishes 5 accounts, the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account, the Rural and Urban Regional Broadband Consortia Grant Account, the Broadband Public Housing Account, the Broadband Adoption Account, and the Federal Funding Account, within the CASF. Existing law provides that the goal of the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account is, by no later than December 31, 2026, to approve funding for infrastructure projects that will provide broadband access to no less than 98% of California households. Upon the accomplishment of that goal, existing law makes up to $30,000,000 remaining in the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account available for infrastructure projects that provide last-mile broadband access to households to which no facility-based broadband provider offers broadband service at speeds of at least 10 megabits per second (mbps) downstream and one mbps upstream. Existing law authorizes the commission to impose a surcharge to collect $330,000,000 for deposit into the CASF beginning January 1, 2018, and continuing through the 2022 calendar year. Existing law specifies the amount of surcharge revenues to be deposited into each account within the CASF, subject to appropriation by the Legislature. Existing law authorizes the commission, in administering Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account, to require each infrastructure grant applicant to indicate steps taken to first obtain any available funding from the Connect America Fund program or similar federal public programs that fund broadband infrastructure. This bill would provide that the goal of the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account is to approve funding for infrastructure projects that will provide broadband access to no less than 98% of California households by no later than December 31, 2032, rather than December 31, 2026. The bill would delete the provision making up to $30,000,000 available for infrastructure projects upon the accomplishment of that goal, as specified. The bill would authorize moneys appropriated from the CASF to be used to fund projects that deploy broadband infrastructure to unserved nonresidential facilities used for local and state emergency response activities, including fairgrounds. The bill would delete the commission's authorization to collect $330,000,000 for deposit into the CASF beginning January 1, 2018, and continuing through the 2022 calendar year. The bill would authorize the commission, through imposition of a surcharge, to collect up to $150,000,000 per year. The bill would delete the commission's authorization to require each infrastructure grant applicant to indicate steps taken to first obtain any available funding from federal public programs, as specified. (3) Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because certain of the above provisions would be part of the act and a violation of a commission action implementing this bill's requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. (4) This bill would become effective only if AB 14 of the 2021–22 Regular Session is enacted and takes effect on or before January 1, 2022. (5) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 671, Statutes of 2021.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2551.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 55. Noes 9. Page 2940.) Ordered to the Senate.

  7. Ordered to third reading.

  8. Read third time and amended.

  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  10. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  11. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (August 26).

  12. August 26 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR suspense file.

  13. August 19 hearing postponed by committee.

  14. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  15. Coauthors revised.

  16. Referred to Com. on C. & C.

  17. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  18. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 5. Page 1387.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  19. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  20. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  21. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1178.) (May 20).

  22. Set for hearing May 20.

  23. May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.

  24. Set for hearing May 3.

  25. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  26. Withdrawn from committee.

  27. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

  28. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 1. Page 755.) (April 12).

  29. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C.

  30. Set for hearing April 12.

  31. Referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and JUD.

  32. From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 7.

  33. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 18 co-sponsors · 103 not signed on · 10 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (18)

Not signed on (103)

103 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

Do pass

Passed 10 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 7000
Republican 1000
Unaffiliated 2000
Total 10000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (10)
Member Party Vote
Ochoa Bogh — Yea
Weber Pierson — Yea
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Yea
Cabaldon, Christopher Democratic Yea
Gonzalez, Lena A. Democratic Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Richardson, Laura Democratic Yea
Wahab, Aisha Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea
Niello, Roger W. Republican Yea

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SB 4 Gonzalez Third Reading Urgency By Aguiar-Curry

Passed 55 Yea · 9 Nay · 16 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 23103
Unaffiliated 32606
Republican 0207
Total 559016
% of votes cast 69%11%0%20%
How each member voted (80)
Member Party Vote
Bloom — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Holden — Yea
Villapudua — Yea
Salas — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Mayes — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Wood — Yea
Ting — Yea
Low — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Levine — Yea
Medina — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Gray — Yea
Burke — Yea
Cooper — Yea
Chau — Yea
Smith — Nay
Voepel — Nay
Kiley — Nay
Bigelow — Nay
Waldron — Not Voting
Maienschein — Not Voting
Cunningham — Not Voting
Mathis — Not Voting
Daly — Not Voting
Frazier — Not Voting
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Nay
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Luz Rivas — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Vince Fong — Nay
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Bauer-Kahan, Rebecca Democratic Yea
Bennett, Steve Democratic Yea
Berman, Marc Democratic Yea
Boerner, Tasha Democratic Not Voting
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Bryan, Isaac G. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Cervantes, Sabrina Democratic Yea
Gabriel, Jesse Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Lee, Alex Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Nay
Petrie-Norris, Cottie Democratic Not Voting
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Ramos, James C. Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea
Rubio, Blanca E. Democratic Not Voting
Ward, Christopher M. Democratic Yea
Weber Pierson, M.D., Akilah Democratic Yea
Wicks, Buffy Democratic Yea
Chen, Phillip Republican Not Voting
Choi, Steven S. Republican Not Voting
Dahle, Megan Republican Not Voting
Davies, Laurie Republican Nay
Flora, Heath Republican Not Voting
Gallagher, James Republican Not Voting
Lackey, Tom Republican Not Voting
Seyarto, Kelly Republican Nay
Valladares, Suzette Martinez Republican Not Voting

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Unfinished Business SB4 Gonzalez et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence

Passed 29 Yea · 8 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 11101
Unaffiliated 17402
Republican 1300
Total 29803
% of votes cast 73%20%0%8%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Bradford — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Newman — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Min — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Roth — Yea
Rubio — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Pan — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Wilk — Nay
Nielsen — Nay
Melendez — Nay
Bates — Nay
Borgeas — Not Voting
Eggman — Not Voting
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Yea
Archuleta, Bob Democratic Yea
Becker, Josh Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Cortese, Dave Democratic Yea
Durazo, Maria Elena Democratic Yea
Hurtado, Melissa Democratic Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Not Voting
Umberg, Thomas J. Democratic Nay
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay
Ochoa Bogh, Rosilicie Republican Yea

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Do pass as amended.

Passed 12 Yea · 3 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6101
Democratic 6000
Republican 0200
Total 12301
% of votes cast 75%19%0%6%
How each member voted (16)
Member Party Vote
Levine — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Chau — Yea
Bigelow — Nay
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Vince Fong — Not Voting
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Bryan, Isaac G. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gabriel, Jesse Democratic Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea
Weber Pierson, M.D., Akilah Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Davies, Laurie Republican Nay

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Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

Passed 8 Yea · 3 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 5100
Democratic 3002
Republican 0200
Total 8302
% of votes cast 62%23%0%15%
How each member voted (13)
Member Party Vote
Santiago — Yea
Holden — Yea
Low — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Nay
Bennett, Steve Democratic Not Voting
Boerner, Tasha Democratic Not Voting
Bryan, Isaac G. Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Weber Pierson, M.D., Akilah Democratic Yea
Davies, Laurie Republican Nay
Valladares, Suzette Martinez Republican Nay

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3rd Reading SB4 Gonzalez et al. Urgency Clause

Passed 31 Yea · 5 Nay · 4 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 18203
Democratic 12001
Republican 1300
Total 31504
% of votes cast 78%13%0%10%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Dodd — Yea
Roth — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Rubio — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Newman — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Min — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Pan — Yea
Bates — Nay
Wilk — Nay
Borgeas — Not Voting
Nielsen — Not Voting
Melendez — Not Voting
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Yea
Archuleta, Bob Democratic Yea
Becker, Josh Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Cortese, Dave Democratic Yea
Durazo, Maria Elena Democratic Yea
Hurtado, Melissa Democratic Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Yea
Umberg, Thomas J. Democratic Not Voting
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay
Ochoa Bogh, Rosilicie Republican Yea

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Do pass as amended

Passed 5 Yea · 2 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 4100
Democratic 1000
Republican 0100
Total 5200
% of votes cast 71%29%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Wieckowski — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Bates — Nay
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay

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Placed on suspense file

Passed 6 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 4001
Republican 1000
Democratic 1000
Total 6001
% of votes cast 86%0%0%14%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Portantino — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Bates — Not Voting
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary]

Passed 11 Yea · 1 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 8001
Democratic 3000
Republican 0101
Total 11102
% of votes cast 79%7%0%14%
How each member voted (14)
Member Party Vote
Rubio — Yea
Min — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Borgeas — Not Voting
Becker, Josh Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Grove, Shannon Republican Not Voting

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 4 do?
(1) Existing law establishes the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, known as "GO-Biz," within the Governor's office to serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. This bill would require the office to coordinate with other relevant state and local agencies and national organizations to explore ways to facilitate streamlining of local land use approvals and construction permit processes for projects related to broadband infrastructure deployment and connectivity. (2) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law requires the commission to develop, implement, and administer the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) to encourage deployment of high-quality advanced communications services to all Californians that will promote economic growth, job creation, and the substantial social benefits of advanced information and communications technologies. Existing law establishes 5 accounts, the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account, the Rural and Urban Regional Broadband Consortia Grant Account, the Broadband Public Housing Account, the Broadband Adoption Account, and the Federal Funding Account, within the CASF. Existing law provides that the goal of the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account is, by no later than December 31, 2026, to approve funding for infrastructure projects that will provide broadband access to no less than 98% of California households. Upon the accomplishment of that goal, existing law makes up to $30,000,000 remaining in the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account available for infrastructure projects that provide last-mile broadband access to households to which no facility-based broadband provider offers broadband service at speeds of at least 10 megabits per second (mbps) downstream and one mbps upstream. Existing law authorizes the commission to impose a surcharge to collect $330,000,000 for deposit into the CASF beginning January 1, 2018, and continuing through the 2022 calendar year. Existing law specifies the amount of surcharge revenues to be deposited into each account within the CASF, subject to appropriation by the Legislature. Existing law authorizes the commission, in administering Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account, to require each infrastructure grant applicant to indicate steps taken to first obtain any available funding from the Connect America Fund program or similar federal public programs that fund broadband infrastructure. This bill would provide that the goal of the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account is to approve funding for infrastructure projects that will provide broadband access to no less than 98% of California households by no later than December 31, 2032, rather than December 31, 2026. The bill would delete the provision making up to $30,000,000 available for infrastructure projects upon the accomplishment of that goal, as specified. The bill would authorize moneys appropriated from the CASF to be used to fund projects that deploy broadband infrastructure to unserved nonresidential facilities used for local and state emergency response activities, including fairgrounds. The bill would delete the commission's authorization to collect $330,000,000 for deposit into the CASF beginning January 1, 2018, and continuing through the 2022 calendar year. The bill would authorize the commission, through imposition of a surcharge, to collect up to $150,000,000 per year. The bill would delete the commission's authorization to require each infrastructure grant applicant to indicate steps taken to first obtain any available funding from federal public programs, as specified. (3) Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because certain of the above provisions would be part of the act and a violation of a commission action implementing this bill's requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. (4) This bill would become effective only if AB 14 of the 2021–22 Regular Session is enacted and takes effect on or before January 1, 2022. (5) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Who sponsors SB 4?
SB 4 is sponsored by Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. (Democratic), Caballero, Anna M. (Democratic), Durazo, Maria Elena (Democratic), Eggman, Hertzberg, McGuire, Mike (Democratic), Skinner, Stern, Henry I. (Democratic), Wiener, Scott D. (Democratic), Archuleta, Bob (Democratic), Becker, Josh (Democratic), Limón, Monique (Democratic), Wicks, Buffy (Democratic), Gonzalez, Lena A. (Democratic), Rubio, Susan (Democratic), Luz Rivas, Wendy Carrillo, and Eduardo Garcia.
What is the current status of SB 4?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced December 07, 2020. Enacted.
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