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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Account cancellation."
+description: "Existing law generally regulates social media platforms, including by requiring a social media company to post terms of service for each social media platform owned or operated by the company in a manner reasonably designed to inform all users of the social media platform of the existence and contents of the terms of service, as prescribed."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "AB 656"
+citation: "California AB 656 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Accountcancellation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Schiavo"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-13"
+last_action: "2025-10-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f7e249c-7b87-469b-a843-e04d91cf9673"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB656"
+source_hash: "0520d3aee71fdd59c390be71f54238b4740871b44d30f8f1fc7ee8aac92bbaab"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 656 (20252026) — Account cancellation.
+
+Existing law generally regulates social media platforms, including by requiring a social media company to post terms of service for each social media platform owned or operated by the company in a manner reasonably designed to inform all users of the social media platform of the existence and contents of the terms of service, as prescribed.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/13/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB656&version=20250AB65699INT)
+2. **03/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB656&version=20250AB65698AMD)
+3. **05/08/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB656&version=20250AB65697AMD)
+4. **06/23/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB656&version=20250AB65696AMD)
+5. **09/04/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB656&version=20250AB65695AMD)
+6. **10/08/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB656&version=20250AB65693CHP)
+7. **AB656** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB656)
+8. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB656&version=20250AB65694ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading AB656 Schiavo et al. By Ashby — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 656 Schiavo Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 656 Schiavo Assembly Third Reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Schiavo — primary (person)
+- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
+- **2025-03-24** Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-07** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 6). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2025-05-08** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1596.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-28** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-12** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2025-06-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2748.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
+- **2025-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3198.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2025-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 464, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f7e249c-7b87-469b-a843-e04d91cf9673`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+