republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-2799.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Privacy: personal information: preschool and prekindergarten purposes."
description: "Existing law, The Student Online Personal Information Protection Act, restricts the use of information about elementary and secondary school students by operators of certain Internet Web sites and online services and applications by, among other things, prohibiting operators from engaging in targeted advertising, amassing student profiles except for K–12 school purposes, or selling or disclosing student information, as specified. Existing law also requires an operator to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the covered information to protect the information from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2799"
citation: "California AB 2799 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Privacy: personal information: preschool and prekindergarten purposes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chau"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-02-19"
last_action: "2016-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5baf1697-24e2-4fc1-8415-9488b2e00a1e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2799"
source_hash: "240a7e7b8db44c0bb5de7dfb4b0e8457ab644d27ed09b805956279af0255f186"
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 2799 (20152016) — Privacy: personal information: preschool and prekindergarten purposes.

Existing law, The Student Online Personal Information Protection Act, restricts the use of information about elementary and secondary school students by operators of certain Internet Web sites and online services and applications by, among other things, prohibiting operators from engaging in targeted advertising, amassing student profiles except for K–12 school purposes, or selling or disclosing student information, as specified. Existing law also requires an operator to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the covered information to protect the information from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2799&version=20150AB279999INT)
2. **04/07/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2799&version=20150AB279998AMD)
3. **06/21/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2799&version=20150AB279997AMD)
4. **09/25/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2799&version=20150AB279995CHP)
5. **AB2799** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2799)
6. **08/30/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2799&version=20150AB279996ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2799 CHAU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2799 Chau By Allen — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2799 CHAU Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chau — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-19** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2016-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2016-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2016-03-10** Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-04** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-04-07** 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`
- **2016-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-09** 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 4791.) `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 JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-27** From Consent Calendar.
- **2016-06-27** Ordered to third reading.
- **2016-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5300.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6347.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2016-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 620, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5baf1697-24e2-4fc1-8415-9488b2e00a1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).