After a months-long battle to pass net neutrality legislation, California lawmakers publicly urged Gov. Jerry Brown to sign it into law.

State legislators passed SB 822 late last week in Sacramento after a rocky ride because of intense lobbying by internet service providers that opposed it. Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco and author of SB 822, on Thursday made his way to the Ronald Reagan State Building in downtown Los Angeles for a press conference alongside Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles, and other net neutrality advocates.

“The internet is not just a luxury, it’s wired into our DNA in 2018 America,” Wiener said. “We need to make sure it remains a level playing field.”

The governor has not taken a public stance on net neutrality, which is the principle that all internet traffic should be treated the same. When reached Thursday, Brown’s spokesman said his office would have no comment.

SB 822 would fill the void left by the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of the 2015 Open Internet Order. The FCC worked to throw out the rules immediately after President Donald Trump appointed Ajit Pai to chair the FCC. Pai, a former Verizon lawyer, is a Republican who has long advocated for fewer regulations and opposed net neutrality rules when he was FCC commissioner during the Obama administration. The FCC voted 3-2 along partisan lines to repeal the rules last December, and the repeal went into effect in June.

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The FCC is now facing lawsuits, from state attorneys general and others, over the repeal. In addition, numerous states have enacted or are trying to enact their own rules to prohibit ISPs from blocking, throttling or treating internet traffic differently.

In California, SB 822 would also take aim at zero rating, which is when ISPs exempt certain content from internet users’ data caps. Wiener has warned that the practice could lead low-income internet users to become “trapped” into only using a few apps or visiting a few websites.

“Protecting access to the internet is critical to our democracy,” said Mary Lizardi of Courage Campaign, a progressive advocacy group, during the press conference. “We expect Gov. Brown to be on right side of history.”