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Bill	Elections: deceptive audio or visual media.	Existing law prohibits a person or specified entity from, with actual malice, producing, distributing, publishing, or broadcasting campaign material, as defined, that contains (1) a picture or photograph of a person or persons into which the image of a candidate for public office is superimposed or (2) a picture or photograph of a candidate for public office into which the image of another person or persons is superimposed, unless the campaign material contains a specified disclosure.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 730	California AB 730 (20192020)	bill	Elections: deceptive audio or visual media.	enacted	Berman	8	28	7	2019-02-19	2019-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/1f2a3121-1281-4faa-9e44-44bfc8b2a0c0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB730	2357ef00074a304f96c0811b49a708ed32787185662f6b1b821b5fe6c0611c8b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 730 (20192020) — Elections: deceptive audio or visual media.

Existing law prohibits a person or specified entity from, with actual malice, producing, distributing, publishing, or broadcasting campaign material, as defined, that contains (1) a picture or photograph of a person or persons into which the image of a candidate for public office is superimposed or (2) a picture or photograph of a candidate for public office into which the image of another person or persons is superimposed, unless the campaign material contains a specified disclosure.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/19/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/25/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/13/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/10/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/03/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB730 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/19/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 730 Berman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 67–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Rules] — 3–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 730 Berman Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB730 Berman et al. By Hertzberg — 29–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Berman — primary (person)
• Grayson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2019-02-28 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2019-05-01 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1587.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-22 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2019-05-29 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-06-12 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-03 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-13 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Joint Rule 61 suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2733.)
• 2019-09-10 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-11 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 7. Page 2926.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2019-09-13 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2019-09-13 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3552.)
• 2019-09-13 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (September 13). committee-passage
• 2019-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 4. Page 3569.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 493, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1f2a3121-1281-4faa-9e44-44bfc8b2a0c0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).