--- 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).