republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-2068.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Talent services."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2068"
citation: "California AB 2068 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Talent services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holden"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-02-17"
last_action: "2016-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c199a60a-5c0b-44fb-b826-547605d148de"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2068"
source_hash: "ff57b04d73813e0223c929125f3ab499af682d1c67332b9e49a74aed4fe0756c"
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 2068 (20152016) — Talent services.

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.

1. **02/17/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2068&version=20150AB206899INT)
2. **03/28/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2068&version=20150AB206898AMD)
3. **04/18/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2068&version=20150AB206897AMD)
4. **08/30/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2068&version=20150AB206895CHP)
5. **AB2068** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2068)
6. **08/17/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2068&version=20150AB206896ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2068 Holden By Mitchell — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c199a60a-5c0b-44fb-b826-547605d148de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).