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Bill	Privacy: California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.	Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants, commencing on January 1, 2020, a consumer various rights with regard to personal information relating to that consumer that is held by a business. The act, among other things, requires a business that collects personal information about a consumer to disclose the consumer's right to delete personal information in a form that is reasonably accessible to consumers and in accordance with a specified process. The act, until January 1, 2021, exempts from its provisions certain information collected by a business about a natural person in the course of the natural person acting as a job applicant, employee, owner, director, officer, medical staff member, or contractor, as specified. The act also, until January 1, 2021, exempts from specified provisions personal information reflecting a written or verbal communication or a transaction between the business and the consumer, if the consumer is a natural person who is acting as an employee, owner, director, officer, or contractor of a company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency and whose communications or transaction with the business occur solely within the context of the business conducting due diligence regarding, or providing or receiving a product or service to or from that company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1281	California AB 1281 (20192020)	bill	Privacy: California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.	enacted	Chau	10	40	8	2019-02-21	2020-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/1c6761cb-4325-4490-9533-bcc715868c0c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1281	483f5e288ee830886328afa5e248992681581199854c80548516a7d5d6afd244	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1281 (20192020) — Privacy: California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.

Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants, commencing on January 1, 2020, a consumer various rights with regard to personal information relating to that consumer that is held by a business. The act, among other things, requires a business that collects personal information about a consumer to disclose the consumer's right to delete personal information in a form that is reasonably accessible to consumers and in accordance with a specified process. The act, until January 1, 2021, exempts from its provisions certain information collected by a business about a natural person in the course of the natural person acting as a job applicant, employee, owner, director, officer, medical staff member, or contractor, as specified. The act also, until January 1, 2021, exempts from specified provisions personal information reflecting a written or verbal communication or a transaction between the business and the consumer, if the consumer is a natural person who is acting as an employee, owner, director, officer, or contractor of a company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency and whose communications or transaction with the business occur solely within the context of the business conducting due diligence regarding, or providing or receiving a product or service to or from that company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/12/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/05/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/29/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1281 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1281 Chau Assembly Third Reading — 61–13 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1281 Chau Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB1281 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 8–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (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
• 2019-04-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (March 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-04-22 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2019-04-22 Ordered to second reading.
• 2019-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 13. Page 1357.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-04-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-08 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. 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
• 2019-06-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (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: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Wieckowski.
• 2020-06-25 From inactive file.
• 2020-06-25 Ordered to second reading.
• 2020-06-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-26 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). referral-committee
• 2020-07-01 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-08-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2020-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4379.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5320.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 268, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c6761cb-4325-4490-9533-bcc715868c0c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).