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Bill	Personal information: social security numbers: the Employment Development Department.	Existing law, commencing on January 1, 2023, prohibits a state agency from sending any outgoing United States mail that contains an individual's social security number unless the number is truncated to its last 4 digits or in specified circumstances, including when federal law requires inclusion of the social security number or when documents are mailed to a current or prospective state employee.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 12	California AB 12 (20212022)	bill	Personal information: social security numbers: the Employment Development Department.	enacted	Seyarto	5	21	7	2020-12-07	2021-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/2b3bcf8b-4025-4f0b-9905-bca71f07241b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB12	83a35fa8692b1024c2dd22efde9e755ca84163df286e643564683678d62aed7c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 12 (20212022) — Personal information: social security numbers: the Employment Development Department.

Existing law, commencing on January 1, 2023, prohibits a state agency from sending any outgoing United States mail that contains an individual's social security number unless the number is truncated to its last 4 digits or in specified circumstances, including when federal law requires inclusion of the social security number or when documents are mailed to a current or prospective state employee.

Version chain

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

1. 12/07/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/05/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB12 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Insurance] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB12 Seyarto et al. Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 12 Seyarto Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Seyarto — primary (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Bigelow — coauthor (person)
• Chen — coauthor (person)
• Cunningham — coauthor (person)
• Davies — coauthor (person)
• Flora — coauthor (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)
• Jones — coauthor (person)
• Kiley — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)
• Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
• Melendez — coauthor (person)
• Nguyen — coauthor (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
• Smith — coauthor (person)
• Valladares — coauthor (person)
• Voepel — coauthor (person)
• Waldron — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-12-08 From printer. May be heard in committee January 7.
• 2021-01-11 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and INS. referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on INS. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-12 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 12). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-13 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-20 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1469.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-03 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 1715.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2236.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-31 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2021-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2021-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 509, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2b3bcf8b-4025-4f0b-9905-bca71f07241b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).