Existing law regulates the licensing and operation of talent services within the entertainment industry. Existing law prohibits specific activities or omissions by a talent service or its owners, directors, officers, agents, and employees, including the failure to remove information about, or photographs of, an artist displayed on the talent service's Internet Web site or an Internet Web site that the service has the authority to design or alter, within 10 days of delivery of a request made by telephone, mail, facsimile transmission, or email from the artist or from a parent or guardian of the artist if the artist is a minor. If the talent service offers to display information about, or a photograph of, an artist on the service's Internet Web site, existing law requires a contract between an artist and a talent service to contain a notice that the talent service will remove the content within 10 days of a request by the artist or the artist's parent or guardian, if a minor. A willful violation of those prohibitions is a crime.
Existing law regulates the licensing and operation of talent services within the entertainment industry. Existing law prohibits specific activities or omissions by a talent service or its owners, directors, officers, agents, and employees, including the failure to remove information about, or photographs of, an artist displayed on the talent service's Internet Web site or an Internet Web site that the service has the authority to design or alter, within 10 days of delivery of a request made by telephone, mail, facsimile transmission, or email from the artist or from a parent or guardian of the artist if the artist is a minor. If the talent service offers to display information about, or a photograph of, an artist on the service's Internet Web site, existing law requires a contract between an artist and a talent service to contain a notice that the talent service will remove the content within 10 days of a request by the artist or the artist's parent or guardian, if a minor. A willful violation of those prohibitions is a crime.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
AB 2068 HOLDEN Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Holden — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2016-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2016-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
2016-02-29 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. referral-committee
2016-03-28 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
2016-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
2016-04-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2016-04-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 12). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2016-04-18 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2016-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2016-05-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2016-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2016-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4787.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2016-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2016-05-19 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
2016-06-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2016-06-27 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
2016-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2016-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4956.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2016-08-16 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2016-08-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2016-08-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2016-08-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 245, Statutes of 2016.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c199a60a-5c0b-44fb-b826-547605d148de. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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