republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-656.md

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Bill	Account cancellation.	Existing law generally regulates social media platforms, including by requiring a social media company to post terms of service for each social media platform owned or operated by the company in a manner reasonably designed to inform all users of the social media platform of the existence and contents of the terms of service, as prescribed.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 656	California AB 656 (20252026)	bill	Accountcancellation	enacted	Schiavo	8	23	5	2025-02-13	2025-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/8f7e249c-7b87-469b-a843-e04d91cf9673	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB656	0520d3aee71fdd59c390be71f54238b4740871b44d30f8f1fc7ee8aac92bbaab	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 656 (20252026) — Account cancellation.

Existing law generally regulates social media platforms, including by requiring a social media company to post terms of service for each social media platform owned or operated by the company in a manner reasonably designed to inform all users of the social media platform of the existence and contents of the terms of service, as prescribed.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/08/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/23/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/04/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/08/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB656 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB656 Schiavo et al. By Ashby — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 656 Schiavo Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 656 Schiavo Assembly Third Reading — 71–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Schiavo — primary (person)
• Lowenthal — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2025-03-24 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 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
• 2025-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 6). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-05-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1596.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-06-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-06-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-04 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
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2748.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3198.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 464, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8f7e249c-7b87-469b-a843-e04d91cf9673. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).