The California State Senate today approved net neutrality rules that are even stricter than the federal regulations they’re meant to replace.

The California bill would replicate the US-wide bans on blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization that were implemented by the FCC in 2015, and it would go beyond the FCC rules with a ban on paid data-cap exemptions. California is one of several states trying to impose state-level net neutrality rules because the FCC’s Republican leadership decided to eliminate the federal rules effective June 11.

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California’s Senate passed a different net neutrality bill in January, but it didn’t go through the Assembly. Wiener’s legislation “is the first state-level bill that would comprehensively secure all of the net neutrality protections that Americans currently enjoy,” according to Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick.