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Bill	Unlawfully obtained data.	Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, authorizes a consumer whose nonencrypted and nonredacted personal information, as defined, is subject to an unauthorized access and exfiltration, theft, or disclosure as a result of a business' violation of the duty to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information to protect the personal information may institute a civil action, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1391	California AB 1391 (20212022)	bill	Unlawfully obtained data.	enacted	Chau	8	25	6	2021-02-19	2021-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/e4318738-7bb8-4752-bb93-e8ca768634e4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1391	43575522c5e7dd79ee4bffc7ac6e7e9b2b21afcc6c08070f97ee90913de3f1e7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1391 (20212022) — Unlawfully obtained data.

Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, authorizes a consumer whose nonencrypted and nonredacted personal information, as defined, is subject to an unauthorized access and exfiltration, theft, or disclosure as a result of a business' violation of the duty to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information to protect the personal information may institute a civil action, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/16/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/24/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/06/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1391 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/03/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1391 Chau By Laird — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1391 Chau Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1391 Chau Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chau — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-03-11 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 8). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-04-12 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-13 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1071.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-04-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-05-12 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-06-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 In committee: Testimony taken. Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-06-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1721.) (June 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-16 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2225.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-01 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 2625.)
• 2021-09-01 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2656.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2021-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 594, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e4318738-7bb8-4752-bb93-e8ca768634e4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).