Existing law requires a business that owns, licenses, or maintains personal information about a California resident to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information, to protect the personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. Existing law defines terms for purposes of this law, including "personal information."
California AB 1541 (20152016) — Privacy: personal information.
Existing law requires a business that owns, licenses, or maintains personal information about a California resident to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information, to protect the personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. Existing law defines terms for purposes of this law, including "personal information."
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Consent Calendar 2nd AB1541 Committee On P. & C.P. — 37–0 (pass) · upper
AB 1541 P. & C.P. Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2015-03-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2015-03-27 From printer. May be heard in committee April 26.
2015-04-06 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
2015-04-29 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
2015-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
2015-05-06 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2015-05-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1446.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2015-05-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2015-06-18 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-06-19 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2015-06-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1618.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-06-25 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2015-07-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
2015-07-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2015-07-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 96, Statutes of 2015.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f1d74530-dd09-4cf6-a3e4-e321a1f2c0fd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).