republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2885.md

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Bill	Artificial intelligence.	Existing law establishes the Government Operations Agency, which is governed by the Secretary of Government Operations. Existing law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated plan to, among other things, evaluate the impact of the proliferation of deepfakes, defined to mean audio or visual content that has been generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence that would falsely appear to be authentic or truthful and that features depictions of people appearing to say or do things they did not say or do without their consent, on state government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2885	California AB 2885 (20232024)	bill	Artificial intelligence	enacted	Bauer-Kahan	8	29	6	2024-02-15	2024-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/41c7b482-1cee-44b2-bbab-286a0b5e8da0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2885	aedadef5eb788c15603605cc476d4c0c13e56f54d65288f11473656c502b2e2c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2885 (20232024) — Artificial intelligence.

Existing law establishes the Government Operations Agency, which is governed by the Secretary of Government Operations. Existing law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated plan to, among other things, evaluate the impact of the proliferation of deepfakes, defined to mean audio or visual content that has been generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence that would falsely appear to be authentic or truthful and that features depictions of people appearing to say or do things they did not say or do without their consent, on state government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/01/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/18/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/21/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2885 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2885 Bauer-Kahan et al. By Umberg — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2885 Bauer-Kahan Consent Calendar Second Day — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2885 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
• Umberg — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2024-03-21 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. 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
• 2024-04-01 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 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2024-04-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. 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 APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-05 From Consent Calendar.
• 2024-08-05 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. 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 843, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/41c7b482-1cee-44b2-bbab-286a0b5e8da0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).