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Bill	Connected televisions.	Existing law makes it a crime for a person who owns, controls, operates, or manages a satellite or cable television corporation to use an electronic device to record, transmit, or observe any events or listen to, record, or monitor any conversations that take place inside a subscriber's residence, workplace, or place of business, without obtaining the express written consent of the subscriber. Existing law requires a device that includes an integrated and enabled wireless access point that is sold as new in the state for use in a small office, home office, or residential setting to be manufactured to possess certain features or advisories, including, among others, protection on the device that requires an affirmative action by the consumer prior to allowing use of the product and an advisory for the consumer regarding how to protect his or her wireless network connection from unauthorized access.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1116	California AB 1116 (20152016)	bill	Connected televisions.	enacted	Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection	9	33	7	2015-02-27	2015-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/b8a436f4-4514-4bfb-bb4a-db85931d8d8f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1116	64e9df673f2226bfb79e811d5e0a5529384ecf03c90461e87b189bb05d7a7e5f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1116 (20152016) — Connected televisions.

Existing law makes it a crime for a person who owns, controls, operates, or manages a satellite or cable television corporation to use an electronic device to record, transmit, or observe any events or listen to, record, or monitor any conversations that take place inside a subscriber's residence, workplace, or place of business, without obtaining the express written consent of the subscriber. Existing law requires a device that includes an integrated and enabled wireless access point that is sold as new in the state for use in a small office, home office, or residential setting to be manufactured to possess certain features or advisories, including, among others, protection on the device that requires an affirmative action by the consumer prior to allowing use of the product and an advisory for the consumer regarding how to protect his or her wireless network connection from unauthorized access.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/30/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/02/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/16/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/06/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1116 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/11/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1116 P. & C.P. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By GATTO — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1116 P. & C.P. Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1116 Committee On P. & C.P. (Gatto) By Leno — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection — primary (person)
• Dababneh — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-19 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-04-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-30 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-04 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-05-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1563.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-06-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-06-29 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-07-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 14). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-17 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2015-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-20 From Consent Calendar.
• 2015-08-20 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2591.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-09-09 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2990.)
• 2015-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3019.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 524, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b8a436f4-4514-4bfb-bb4a-db85931d8d8f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).