Telecommunications giant AT&T, stymied last year by regulators in its bid to drop land-line service to California customers , is taking its battle to the state Legislature.

And so far, the reception is much improved.

Assembly Bill 470 would allow the company, which provides the vast majority of the state’s landline service, to drop most of those customers, including nearly all of the hundreds of thousands in the Bay Area and millions around the state. It easily passed a floor vote in the Assembly in late June, and is now before the state Senate’s appropriations committee.

Berkeley hills resident Cynthia Larson, 63, an author who does not own a cell phone, is worried. “To me the landline is irreplaceable,” she said.

Even if Larson started using a cell phone, a fire or other natural

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