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Bill	Social media-related threats: reporting.	The Cyberbullying Protection Act requires a social media platform to disclose all cyberbullying reporting procedures in the social media platform's terms of service and to establish a mechanism within its internet-based service that allows an individual, whether or not that individual has a profile on the internet-based service, to report cyberbullying or any content that violates the existing terms of service. Existing law requires the reporting mechanism to allow, but not require, an individual to upload a screenshot of the content that contains cyberbullying or violates the terms of service.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2481	California AB 2481 (20232024)	bill	Social media-related threats reporting	enacted	Lowenthal	11	27	5	2024-02-13	2024-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/53d6e499-9a7c-4d19-9ce0-ef70ce9e7109	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2481	79e9e0fb43ac132dd156b55b07a404dcda82e61b57defb2812bee0da994e02fc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2481 (20232024) — Social media-related threats: reporting.

The Cyberbullying Protection Act requires a social media platform to disclose all cyberbullying reporting procedures in the social media platform's terms of service and to establish a mechanism within its internet-based service that allows an individual, whether or not that individual has a profile on the internet-based service, to report cyberbullying or any content that violates the existing terms of service. Existing law requires the reporting mechanism to allow, but not require, an individual to upload a screenshot of the content that contains cyberbullying or violates the terms of service.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/15/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/22/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/23/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/07/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/05/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/28/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB2481 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2481 Lowenthal Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 58–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2481 Lowenthal et al. By Stern — 31–3 (pass) · upper
• AB 2481 Lowenthal Assembly Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lowenthal — primary (person)
• Ortega — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
• 2024-03-21 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 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
• 2024-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2024-04-15 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
• 2024-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2024-04-22 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
• 2024-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2024-04-23 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
• 2024-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2024-05-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 30). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-05-07 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 0. Page 5510.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-06-05 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-08-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 2.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 832, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/53d6e499-9a7c-4d19-9ce0-ef70ce9e7109. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).