(TNS) — The state Senate approved a bill Wednesday that would replace the federal government’s repealed net neutrality regulations, sending the measure to the Assembly.

The Senate voted 23-12 to approve the bill by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco.

“When Donald Trump’s FCC took a wrecking ball to the Obama-era net neutrality protections, we said we would step in to make sure that California residents would be protected from having their Internet access manipulated,” Wiener said in a statement after the vote.​

Assembly committee hearings start in June. The bill must be passed by that chamber by the end of August.

Wiener pushed SB822 as a way for California to assert national leadership in the years-long debate over whether government should regulate Internet service providers to ensure that all web traffic is treated equally.