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Bill	Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024.	Existing law establishes requirements for the conduct of election campaigns, including requirements regarding the endorsement of candidates, political corporations, campaign funds, fair campaign practices, and libel and slander. Existing law, until January 1, 2027, prohibits any person, committee, or other entity from distributing, with actual malice, materially deceptive audio or visual media of a candidate for elective office with the intent to injure the candidate's reputation or to deceive a voter into voting for or against the candidate, within 60 days of the election. Existing law requires specified actions pertaining to elections to be given precedence when they are filed in court, including actions involving the registration of voters, the certification of candidates and measures, and election contests, and, until January 1, 2027, actions involving the foregoing prohibition against materially deceptive media.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2655	California AB 2655 (20232024)	bill	Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024	enacted	Berman	12	36	10	2024-02-14	2024-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/6f00930a-f863-4f97-b93f-7a4b7efe6835	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2655	fc34c80a464348e1271cf9f813a465cdb3124aa774be1cd45dfc05d9a050433e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2655 (20232024) — Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024.

Existing law establishes requirements for the conduct of election campaigns, including requirements regarding the endorsement of candidates, political corporations, campaign funds, fair campaign practices, and libel and slander. Existing law, until January 1, 2027, prohibits any person, committee, or other entity from distributing, with actual malice, materially deceptive audio or visual media of a candidate for elective office with the intent to injure the candidate's reputation or to deceive a voter into voting for or against the candidate, within 60 days of the election. Existing law requires specified actions pertaining to elections to be given precedence when they are filed in court, including actions involving the registration of voters, the certification of candidates and measures, and election contests, and, until January 1, 2027, actions involving the foregoing prohibition against materially deceptive media.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/01/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/24/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/20/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/11/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/03/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/15/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/17/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. AB2655 (committee substitute) — source
12. 08/31/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2655 Berman et al. By Umberg — 31–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 2655 Berman Assembly Third Reading — 56–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 2655 Berman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 59–8 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Berman — primary (person)
• Bennett — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
• Pellerin — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2024-03-21 Referred to Coms. on ELECTIONS and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ELECTIONS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2024-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ELECTIONS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2024-04-10 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (May 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-05-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 1. Page 5544.) 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 Coms. on E. & C.A. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (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 2.) (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
• 2024-08-23 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
• 2024-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-28 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 8.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2024-09-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 261, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f00930a-f863-4f97-b93f-7a4b7efe6835. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).