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Bill	Social media companies: terms of service.	Existing law requires an operator of a commercial website or online service that collects personally identifiable information through the internet about individual consumers residing in California who use or visit its commercial website or online service to make its privacy policy available to consumers, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 587	California AB 587 (20212022)	bill	Social media companies: terms of service.	enacted	Gabriel	10	33	9	2021-02-11	2022-09-13	openstates	ocd-bill/b468bdb4-5670-45d4-9db1-03f16da4d435	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB587	fb16f6e0d5c018cd7081ca58ec6e36cbd8e5b089d149b3db9e5f37026fa1e949	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 587 (20212022) — Social media companies: terms of service.

Existing law requires an operator of a commercial website or online service that collects personally identifiable information through the internet about individual consumers residing in California who use or visit its commercial website or online service to make its privacy policy available to consumers, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/28/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/23/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/30/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/11/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB587 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB587 Gabriel et al. By Umberg — 33–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 587 Gabriel Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 66–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 587 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading — 64–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gabriel — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Cunningham — principal coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Pan — coauthor (person)
• Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)
• Ward — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2021-03-25 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 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
• 2021-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-19 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1059.)
• 2021-04-19 (pending re-refer to Com. on JUD.)
• 2021-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 27). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-05-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 1. Page 1821.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-16 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-07-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-06-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-08-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 3. Page 5240.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 269, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b468bdb4-5670-45d4-9db1-03f16da4d435. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).