republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-942.md

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Bill	California AI Transparency 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 942	California SB 942 (20232024)	bill	California AI Transparency Act	enacted	Becker	10	34	10	2024-01-17	2024-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/2a6983a5-0894-44cb-9595-f30af6f00f08	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB942	d8ff08d78fcbd4c7273c0622d53e54b3a792a9cb581379f06831a9625f88e721	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 942 (20232024) — California AI Transparency 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. 01/17/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/20/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/19/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/23/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/19/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB942 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/03/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB942 Becker Concurrence — 35–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 942 Becker Senate Third Reading By Kalra — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 32–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governmental Organization] — 10–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Becker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-01-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17.
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and G.O. referral-committee
• 2024-04-05 Set for hearing April 16.
• 2024-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 10. Noes 1. Page 3634.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on G.O. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-22 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2024-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1. Page 3721.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-26 Set for hearing May 6.
• 2024-05-06 May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2024-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3964.) (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
• 2024-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 1. Page 4074.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-06-03 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-20 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-07-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (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
• 2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 6715.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 5636.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2024-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 291, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2a6983a5-0894-44cb-9595-f30af6f00f08. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).