Existing law requires a business to take all reasonable steps to dispose of customer records within its custody or control containing personal information when the records are no longer to be retained by the business by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the personal information in those records to make it unreadable or undecipherable. Existing law also 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 authorizes a customer injured by a violation of these provisions to institute a civil action to recover damages.
California SB 327 (20172018) — Information privacy: connected devices.
Existing law requires a business to take all reasonable steps to dispose of customer records within its custody or control containing personal information when the records are no longer to be retained by the business by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the personal information in those records to make it unreadable or undecipherable. Existing law also 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 authorizes a customer injured by a violation of these provisions to institute a civil action to recover damages.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Unfinished Business SB327 Jackson et al. Concurrence — 28–9 (pass) · upper
SB 327 Jackson Senate Third Reading By IRWIN — 53–22 (pass) · lower
Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading — 28–9 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Jackson — primary (person)
Irwin — principal coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2017-02-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2017-02-14 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
2017-02-23 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2017-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
2017-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2017-04-13 Set for hearing May 9.
2017-05-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1020.) (May 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2017-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2017-05-17 Published May 17 at 9 p.m.
2017-05-26 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
2017-05-26 Ordered to second reading.
2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2017-05-30 Published May 26 at 2 p.m.
2017-06-01 Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Jackson.
2018-01-11 From inactive file.
2018-01-11 Ordered to second reading.
2018-01-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2018-01-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-01-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 9. Page 4068.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-01-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2018-04-16 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
2018-07-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2018-08-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
2018-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2018-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
2018-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
2018-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 53. Noes 22. Page 6715.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2018-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 9. Page 5925.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2018-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2018-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2018-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 886, Statutes of 2018.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b866dacf-8501-4bf1-be6e-c9476ceb933c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).