republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-896.md

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Bill	Generative Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act.	Existing law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated plan to, among other things, investigate the feasibility of, and obstacles to, developing standards and technologies for state departments to determine digital content provenance. For the purpose of informing that coordinated plan, existing law requires the secretary to evaluate, among other things, 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	SB 896	California SB 896 (20232024)	bill	Generative Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act	enacted	Dodd	9	32	9	2024-01-03	2024-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/16d96be0-fa72-4fe2-a766-8e678391c30c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB896	d7373eb02c4844fc1a9b7c5c9a9e3c783a2f8653a12b4761ba6d7585b56ffcc6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 896 (20232024) — Generative Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act.

Existing law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated plan to, among other things, investigate the feasibility of, and obstacles to, developing standards and technologies for state departments to determine digital content provenance. For the purpose of informing that coordinated plan, existing law requires the secretary to evaluate, among other things, 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. 01/03/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/04/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/19/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/29/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB896 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/30/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 896 Dodd Senate Third Reading By Low — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB896 Dodd et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent SB896 Dodd et al. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Weber — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-03 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-01-04 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3.
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-03-14 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2024-04-09 Set for hearing April 16 in JUD. pending receipt.
• 2024-04-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 3528.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3634.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-22 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2024-04-29 April 29 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2024-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3962.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-22 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4207.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-06-03 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2024-06-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-08-07 August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6546.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-27 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-08-28 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5612.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 928, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16d96be0-fa72-4fe2-a766-8e678391c30c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).