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Bill	Misleading advertising: domain and subdomain names.	Existing law makes it unlawful to, with bad faith intent, traffic in or use a domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to the personal name of another living person or deceased personality without regard to the goods or services of the parties, except if the name is connected to a work of authorship. Existing law authorizes a court to consider specified factors in making a finding regarding bad faith intent, including that it was the intent of the person using the name to divert consumers from the person's or deceased personality's online location to a site that could harm the goodwill of that person or to tarnish or disparage that person.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 342	California SB 342 (20192020)	bill	Misleading advertising: domain and subdomain names.	enacted	Hertzberg	9	35	9	2019-02-19	2020-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/83ecd7cf-aefd-4c96-b4de-08df8f166611	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB342	ef26e17a007af0aad564d8469fa46c8591642c3bdf2d0d1d217c113a67cd203c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 342 (20192020) — Misleading advertising: domain and subdomain names.

Existing law makes it unlawful to, with bad faith intent, traffic in or use a domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to the personal name of another living person or deceased personality without regard to the goods or services of the parties, except if the name is connected to a work of authorship. Existing law authorizes a court to consider specified factors in making a finding regarding bad faith intent, including that it was the intent of the person using the name to divert consumers from the person's or deceased personality's online location to a site that could harm the goodwill of that person or to tarnish or disparage that person.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/13/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/27/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/17/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/25/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB342 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/28/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 342 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By Mark Stone — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB342 Hertzberg Concurrence — 30–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-19 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2019-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
• 2019-02-28 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2019-03-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-04-05 Set for hearing April 30.
• 2019-05-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 906.) (April 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-05-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2019-05-13 May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-14 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-17 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1097.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1201.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-10 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-01 July 2 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-07-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97. referral-committee
• 2019-08-19 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
• 2019-08-21 August 21 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-08-30 August 30 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-01-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5200.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-25 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2020-08-27 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 4349.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2020-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 162, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/83ecd7cf-aefd-4c96-b4de-08df8f166611. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).