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Bill	The Parent's Accountability and Child Protection Act.	Existing law prohibits an operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application, as specified, from marketing or advertising specified types of products or services to a minor. Existing law also makes it unlawful for any person to sell specified products or services to a minor or requires permission from a parent or legal guardian in order to sell to a minor. Under existing law, generally a minor may make a contract in the same manner as an adult.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2511	California AB 2511 (20172018)	bill	The Parent's Accountability and Child Protection Act.	enacted	Chau	12	32	7	2018-02-14	2018-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/52bb4724-fba0-4e09-9138-59a18fb7aacb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2511	203e607d89b9b438514436f3425d3b057c905b0a3404d121d7bffdfa344b474a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2511 (20172018) — The Parent's Accountability and Child Protection Act.

Existing law prohibits an operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application, as specified, from marketing or advertising specified types of products or services to a minor. Existing law also makes it unlawful for any person to sell specified products or services to a minor or requires permission from a parent or legal guardian in order to sell to a minor. Under existing law, generally a minor may make a contract in the same manner as an adult.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/07/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/19/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/25/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/07/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/28/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. AB2511 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2511 CHAU Assembly Third Reading — 56–16 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 2511 CHAU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 64–12 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2511 Chau By Roth — 27–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chau — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2018-03-05 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2018-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2018-04-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2018-05-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (May 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-07 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 16. Page 5638.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-13 Referred to Coms. on G.O., JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-06-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-20 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-06-20 Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-06 (Received pursuant to Joint Rule 61(b)(14).)
• 2018-08-07 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 5967.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 12. Page 7002.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 872, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/52bb4724-fba0-4e09-9138-59a18fb7aacb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).