Legislationsby GlyphSB 947
Employment: Automated Decision Systems
Would require employers to give notice about automated decision systems used in employment decisions and bar retaliation against workers who assert their rights, enforced by the Labor Commissioner.
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AB 2575unverified
AB 2575
This bill would have protected nurses from disciplinary action when overriding unsafe artificial intelligence clinical recommendations.
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AI therapy chatbot ban bill
This bill would have prohibited artificial intelligence algorithms from providing or advertising therapy services.
SB 1000
California AI Transparency Act Revisions
Would recast the California AI Transparency Act, removing the user threshold for covered providers and replacing AI detection tools with disclosure verification tools, as an urgency statute.
SB 1111
Digital Replicas
Would clarify that the right of publicity and false impersonation laws cover digital replicas of a person's voice or likeness.
SB 951
Employment: Technological Displacement: Notice
Would require Cal/WARN layoff notices to disclose when a mass layoff, relocation or termination is caused in whole or substantial part by AI or other automated technology.
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Executive Order to Boost AI Safety Oversight
The executive order increases safety oversight and requires independent verification of artificial intelligence systems.
SB 503
Health Care Services: AI Clinical Decision Support
Would require developers and deployers of AI clinical decision support systems to make reasonable efforts to identify systems with a foreseeable risk of biased impacts and to disclose intended uses and risks.
SB 903
Mental Health Professionals: Artificial Intelligence
Would limit the use of AI in psychotherapy services to administrative or supplementary support and bar training models on psychotherapy data in ways inconsistent with confidentiality law.
AB 1705
Pornographic Internet Websites: Depicted Individuals
Would require pornographic website operators to take reasonable steps to ensure displayed and uploaded sexually explicit content does not include individuals who did not consent or were minors.
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Robo-bosses ban bill
This bill prohibits employers from using artificial intelligence systems to autonomously terminate workers.
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Wearable technology privacy bill
This bill would have regulated wearable technology devices to address privacy concerns.
AB 1883
Workplace Surveillance Tools
Would bar employers from using AI workplace surveillance tools to collect neural data or recognize workers' emotional states, with civil penalties of up to $500 per violation.
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No Robo Bosses Act
California enacted a law that prohibits employers from relying on artificial intelligence for certain employment decisions.
AB 1609
Customer Service Chatbots
Would bar large businesses from representing a customer service chatbot as human and require them to offer access to a human agent, generally within 15 minutes of a request.
SB 923
Consumer Privacy: Deletion Requests
Would expand the CCPA right to delete to all personal information a business has collected about a consumer and require businesses to offer an online method for submitting privacy requests.
AB 883
Data Brokers: Deletion Mechanism: Elected Officials and Judges
Would shorten the Delete Act processing cycle for data brokers from 45 to 30 days and require notice to elected officials and judges that they can use the deletion mechanism.
SB 887
CEQA: Data Centers and Geothermal Projects
Bars CEQA categorical exemptions for data center projects and lets the governor certify qualifying data center projects as environmental leadership development projects.
SB 1168
Data Centers: Rate Structures
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to assess rate structures so that data centers pay a reasonable share of transmission, distribution and procurement costs tied to their loads.
AB 1577
Data Centers: Reporting
Requires data center owners or operators to report information such as location, size, power usage effectiveness and onsite generator fuel use to the California Energy Commission.
AB 2469
Data Centers: Water Use Disclosures
Bars cities and counties from approving permits for new or expanded data centers unless the applicant provides prescribed water use information and other conditions are met.
AB 2383
Electricity: Data Centers
Requires each electrical corporation to file transmission, distribution and generation service tariffs for participating data center customers.
AB 2619
Water Resources: Data Centers
Requires data center operators to give their water supplier a good faith estimate of expected water use and water source before applying for a local business license or permit.
SB 1050
False Advertising: Synthetic Performers
Makes it an unlawful advertising practice to publish an ad that prominently includes a synthetic performer without a clear and conspicuous disclosure.
SB 1119
Companion Chatbots: Children's Safety (Adam's Law)
Requires companion chatbot operators, beginning July 1, 2027, to perform and document child safety risk assessments and meet other child safety duties before offering new or substantially modified chatbots in California.
AB 1709
Covered Platforms: Age Restriction: e-Safety Advisory Commission
Bars covered platforms from providing addictive features to users under 16, with Attorney General enforcement, and creates an e-Safety Advisory Commission in the Department of Justice.
AB 2246
Online Services Accessed by Children
Repeals the enjoined Age-Appropriate Design Code Act and replaces it with similar duties requiring online services likely to be accessed by children to take reasonable steps to prevent specified risks of harm.
AB 1856
Age Verification Signals: Software Applications
Amends the Digital Age Assurance Act to revise how operating systems collect age information and send age signals to app stores and app developers.
AB 1946
Reporting Mechanism: Child Sexual Abuse Material
Expands social media platform reporting duties for child sexual abuse material to cover intimate depictions of identifiable minors and makes noncompliant platforms liable to depicted individuals.
SB 867
Toys: Companion Chatbots
Bans the manufacture or sale in California of toys that include a companion chatbot until January 1, 2031.
AB 1405
Artificial Intelligence: Auditors: Registration
Requires the Government Operations Agency to create an AI Auditor Registry by January 1, 2029 and bars unregistered AI auditors from conducting covered AI audits.
AB 1018
Automated Decisions Safety Act
Would regulate the development and deployment of automated decision systems used to make consequential decisions about people.
AB 2023
Companion Chatbots: Children's Safety
Would have required companion chatbot operators to perform annual child safety risk assessments and audits, with Attorney General reporting and a private right of action for harmed children.
AB 412
Generative AI: Training Data: Copyrighted Materials
Would require generative AI developers to provide a way for rights owners to request information about the developer's use of their copyrighted materials in training.
SB 362
Delete Act
Requires data brokers to register with the California Privacy Protection Agency and to process consumer deletion requests submitted through a single state-run deletion mechanism.
AB 39
Digital Financial Assets Law
Requires businesses engaged in digital financial asset activity with California residents to obtain a license from the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.
SB 978
Data Centers: Labor: Electricity Rates
Would have required the Public Utilities Commission to establish a special electricity rate structure for data centers.
AB 2273
California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act
Requires online services likely to be accessed by children to assess and mitigate risks to children and to configure default privacy settings to a high level of privacy.
SB 7
Employment: Automated Decision Systems (No Robo Bosses Act)
Would have required employers to notify workers about automated decision systems used for employment decisions and to give notice when relying primarily on such systems for discipline or termination.
SB 11
Artificial Intelligence Technology: Digital Replicas
Would have clarified that false impersonation and right of publicity laws cover AI digital replicas and required AI tools that create them to display a consumer warning about unlawful use.
SB 771
Personal Rights: Liability of Social Media Platforms
Would have made social media platforms liable when their algorithms relay content in violation of state civil rights and personal rights laws, or when they aid or abet such violations.
AB 1064
Leading Ethical AI Development (LEAD) for Kids Act
Would have barred making a companion chatbot available to a child unless it was not foreseeably capable of harms such as encouraging self-harm, suicidal ideation, violence or disordered eating.
AB 93
Water Resources: Data Centers
Would have required data center operators to give their water supplier an estimate of expected water use before applying for a local business license.
CCPA Regulations on Automated Decisionmaking Technology, Risk Assessments and Cybersecurity Audits
Regulations that give consumers rights to access and opt out of businesses' use of automated decisionmaking technology and require certain businesses to conduct risk assessments and annual cybersecurity audits.
SB 942
California AI Transparency Act
Requires large generative AI providers to offer a free AI detection tool and to embed disclosures in AI-generated image, video and audio content.
SB 243
Companion Chatbots
Requires companion chatbot operators to disclose that the chatbot is AI, maintain protocols against suicide and self-harm content, add safeguards for known minors and report annually to the Office of Suicide Prevention.
AB 1043
Digital Age Assurance Act
Requires operating system providers to collect a user's age at account setup and send an age bracket signal to app stores and developers, beginning January 1, 2027.
AB 56
Social Media Warning Law
Requires social media platforms to show users a black box warning when they first access the platform each day, after 3 hours of use and hourly after that, beginning January 1, 2027.
AB 316
Artificial Intelligence: Autonomous Harm Defense
Bars a defendant who developed, modified or used artificial intelligence from arguing that the AI autonomously caused the harm to the plaintiff.
AB 853
California AI Transparency Act: Delay and Provenance
Delays the California AI Transparency Act to August 2, 2026 and adds content provenance duties for large online platforms from 2027 and capture device makers from 2028.