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Bill	Use of likeness: digital replica.	Existing law establishes a cause of action for damages on behalf of specified injured parties for the unauthorized use of a deceased personality's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness in any manner, on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of, products, merchandise, goods, or services within 70 years of the personality's death, except as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1836	California AB 1836 (20232024)	bill	Use of likeness digital replica	enacted	Bauer-Kahan	9	29	9	2024-01-16	2024-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/747a9816-23db-40ec-adb5-cff4a3368dff	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1836	4aebc066e6d09423c2f9aa1474057def187231a5f5b11071729c36195bfe8c1b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1836 (20232024) — Use of likeness: digital replica.

Existing law establishes a cause of action for damages on behalf of specified injured parties for the unauthorized use of a deceased personality's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness in any manner, on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of, products, merchandise, goods, or services within 70 years of the personality's death, except as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/16/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/18/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/25/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/02/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/15/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/17/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1836 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1836 BAUER-KAHAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 57–8 (pass) · lower
• AB 1836 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — 59–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1836 Bauer-Kahan By Ashby — 33–4 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-01-17 From printer. May be heard in committee February 16.
• 2024-02-12 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-04-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-18 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-04-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-05-02 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-06 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 0. Page 5312.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-29 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 4.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 15.)
• 2024-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 8.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 258, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/747a9816-23db-40ec-adb5-cff4a3368dff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).