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Bill	Age verification signals: software applications and online services.	Existing law generally provides protections for minors on the internet, including the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act that, among other things, requires a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to do certain things, including estimate the age of child users with a reasonable level of certainty appropriate to the risks that arise from the data management practices of the business or apply the privacy and data protections afforded to children to all consumers and prohibits an online service, product, or feature from, among other things, using dark patterns to lead or encourage children to provide personal information beyond what is reasonably expected to provide that online service, product, or feature or to forego privacy protections.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 1043	California AB 1043 (20252026)	bill	Ageverificationsignals softwareapplicationsandonlineservices	enacted	Wicks	9	34	9	2025-02-20	2025-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/d87e7d92-e344-4d02-ba4f-3f9601b69b33	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043	60d4f776b61264d599a6feb9b70b5aad513e8f906f91818d8369ba1f7d639e9c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1043 (20252026) — Age verification signals: software applications and online services.

Existing law generally provides protections for minors on the internet, including the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act that, among other things, requires a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to do certain things, including estimate the age of child users with a reasonable level of certainty appropriate to the risks that arise from the data management practices of the business or apply the privacy and data protections afforded to children to all consumers and prohibits an online service, product, or feature from, among other things, using dark patterns to lead or encourage children to provide personal information beyond what is reasonably expected to provide that online service, product, or feature or to forego privacy protections.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/23/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/13/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1043 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1043 Wicks et al. By Umberg — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1043 Wicks Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1043 WICKS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wicks — primary (person)
• Alanis — coauthor (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Dixon — coauthor (person)
• Harabedian — coauthor (person)
• Hoover — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
• Stefani — coauthor (person)
• Umberg — principal coauthor (person)
• Weber Pierson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2025-03-28 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-03-28 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
• 2025-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1914.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-07-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-23 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2996.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-13 Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
• 2025-09-13 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3477.)
• 2025-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3480.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 675, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d87e7d92-e344-4d02-ba4f-3f9601b69b33. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).