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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Privacy: personal information."
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description: "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.\""
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20152016"
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identifier: "AB 1541"
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citation: "California AB 1541 (20152016)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Privacy: personal information."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2015-03-26"
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last_action: "2015-07-14"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1d74530-dd09-4cf6-a3e4-e321a1f2c0fd"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1541"
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source_hash: "719ce17439c36ed034e38b1912714b8c8944e7f2b6e3e1581f608113a23c3c8f"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 1541 (20152016) — Privacy: personal information.
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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."
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **03/26/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1541&version=20150AB154199INT)
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2. **04/29/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1541&version=20150AB154198AMD)
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3. **07/14/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1541&version=20150AB154196CHP)
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4. **AB1541** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1541)
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5. **06/29/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1541&version=20150AB154197ENR)
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## Votes
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- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1541 Committee On P. & C.P. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 1541 P. & C.P. Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2015-03-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2015-03-27** From printer. May be heard in committee April 26.
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- **2015-04-06** Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2015-04-30** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-05-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1446.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2015-05-28** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-06-18** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-06-19** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-06-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1618.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-06-25** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2015-07-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
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- **2015-07-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2015-07-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 96, Statutes of 2015.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f1d74530-dd09-4cf6-a3e4-e321a1f2c0fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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