The California Constitution grants a right of privacy. Existing law provides for the confidentiality of personal information in various contexts and requires a business or person that suffers a breach of security of computerized data that includes personal information, as defined, to disclose that breach, as specified. Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, beginning January 1, 2020, among other things, grants a consumer a right to request a business to disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information that it collects about the consumer, the categories of sources from which that information is collected, the business purposes for collecting or selling the information, and the categories of third parties with which the information is shared.
California AB 1202 (20192020) — Privacy: data brokers.
The California Constitution grants a right of privacy. Existing law provides for the confidentiality of personal information in various contexts and requires a business or person that suffers a breach of security of computerized data that includes personal information, as defined, to disclose that breach, as specified. Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, beginning January 1, 2020, among other things, grants a consumer a right to request a business to disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information that it collects about the consumer, the categories of sources from which that information is collected, the business purposes for collecting or selling the information, and the categories of third parties with which the information is shared.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
3rd Reading AB1202 Chau By Jackson — 29–10 (pass) · upper
AB 1202 Chau Assembly Third Reading — 56–13 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
AB 1202 Chau Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 63–14 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–2 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Chau — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2019-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2019-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
2019-03-11 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
2019-03-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2019-04-24 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2019-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2019-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 13. Page 2048.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2019-06-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
2019-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2019-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 2943.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2019-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 63. Noes 14. Page 3610.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2019-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2019-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2019-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 753, Statutes of 2019.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/98b51548-f6d5-4791-a3a7-fb23dbc3cd6d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).