Aisha Wahab
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 10
Author
Existing law generally regulates social media platforms, including by requiring a social media platform to provide, in a mechanism that is reasonably accessible to users, a means for a user who is a California resident to report material to the social media platform that the user reasonably believes is, among other things, child sexual abuse material. This bill would require a social media platform to provide a mechanism that is reasonably accessible to a reporting user who is a California resident who has an account with the social media platform to report sexually explicit digital identity theft to the social media platform. The bill would define "sexually explicit digital identity theft" to mean the posting of covered material on a social media platform and would define "covered material" to mean material that meets certain criteria, including that the material is an image or video created or altered through digitization that would appear to a reasonable person to be an image or video of an intimate body part of an identifiable person or an identifiable person engaged in certain sexual acts, and that the reporting person is the person depicted in the material and did not consent to the use of the reporting person's likeness in the material. The bill would also require a social media platform to immediately remove a reported instance of sexually explicit digital identity theft from being publicly viewable on the social media platform if the social media platform determines there is a reasonable basis to believe the reported sexually explicit digital identity theft is sexually explicit digital identity theft, as prescribed.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 292, Statutes of 2024.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5198.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 6278.) Ordered to the Senate.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 2).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3895.) Ordered to the Assembly.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3819.) (April 30).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Set for hearing April 30.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB981 | HTML |
| 01/29/24 - Introduced | |
| 03/20/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/22/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/02/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/21/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/05/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/21/24 - Enrolled | |
| 09/19/24 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/26/24- Senate Judiciary | |
| 06/29/24- Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection | |
| 08/07/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 08/13/24- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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