Jerry McNerney
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 5
Author
Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, establishes the California Cybersecurity Integration Center within the Office of Emergency Services to serve as the central organizing hub of state government's cybersecurity activities and to coordinate information sharing with various entities. Existing law also requires the Technology Recovery Plan element of the State Administrative Manual to ensure the inclusion of cybersecurity strategy incident response standards for each state agency to secure its critical infrastructure controls and information, as prescribed. This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2026, an operator, defined as a state agency responsible for operating, managing, overseeing, or controlling access to critical infrastructure, that deploys a covered artificial intelligence (AI) system, as defined, to establish a human oversight mechanism that ensures a human monitors the system's operations in real time and reviews and approves any plan or action proposed by the covered AI system before execution, except as provided. The bill would require the Department of Technology to develop specialized training in AI safety protocols and risk management techniques to oversight personnel. The bill would require oversight personnel for an operator to conduct an annual assessment of its covered AI systems, as specified, and to submit a summary of the findings to the department. The bill would make findings and declarations related to its provisions. The bill would preclude disclosure of specified information by the office. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
August 29 hearing postponed by committee.
August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. 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 15. Noes 0.) (July 16).
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 15. Page 2578.)
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 37. Noes 0. Page 1446.) Ordered to the Assembly.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1214.) (May 23).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Set for hearing May 23.
May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
Set for hearing May 5.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 830.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing April 22.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
Read first time.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB833 | HTML |
| 02/21/25 - Introduced | |
| 03/26/25 - Amended Senate | |
| 07/07/25 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/17/25 - Amended Assembly |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/17/25- Senate Governmental Organization | |
| 05/02/25- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/26/25- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 07/15/25- Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection | |
| 08/18/25- Assembly Appropriations |
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