Nancy Skinner
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 9
Author
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 prohibits a business from selling the personal information of a consumer if the business has actual knowledge that the consumer is less than 16 years of age, unless the consumer, in the case of a consumer at least 13 years of age and less than 16 years of age, or the consumer's parent or guardian, in the case of a consumer who is less than 13 years of age, has affirmatively authorized the sale of the consumer's personal information. The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act requires, beginning July 1, 2024, a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to comply with specified requirements, including a requirement to configure all default privacy settings offered by the online service, product, or feature to the settings that offer a high level of privacy, as prescribed, and requires a business, before any new online services, products, or features are offered to the public, to complete a Data Protection Impact Assessment for any online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children and maintain documentation of this assessment as long as the online service, product, or feature is likely to be accessed by children. This bill would prohibit a social media platform, as defined, from using a design, algorithm, or feature that the platform knows, or by the exercise of reasonable care should have known, causes child users, as defined, to do any of certain things, including experience addiction to the social media platform. This bill would provide that a social media platform is not in violation of the bill if the social media platform instituted and maintained a program of at least quarterly audits, as defined, of its designs, algorithms, and features that have the potential to cause violations of the provision described above, and the social media platform corrected, within 60 days of the completion of the audit, any design, algorithm, or feature discovered by the audit to present more than a de minimis risk of violating that provision. This bill would subject a social media platform that knowingly and willfully violates these provisions to a civil penalty not to exceed $250,000 per violation, an injunction, and an award of litigation costs and attorney's fees in an action brought only by certain public attorneys, including the Attorney General.
September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 11).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 1223.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Ordered to second reading.
May 8 hearing postponed by committee.
Withdrawn from committee.
Set for hearing May 8.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1. Page 895.) (April 25).
Set for hearing April 25.
April 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Set for hearing April 18.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB680 | HTML |
| 02/16/23 - Introduced | |
| 04/27/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/12/23 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/13/23 - Amended Assembly |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/14/23- Senate Judiciary | |
| 04/21/23- Senate Judiciary | |
| 05/05/23- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/22/23- Assembly Judiciary | |
| 07/08/23- Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection | |
| 08/14/23- Assembly Appropriations |
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