republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-683.md

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Bill	Privacy: use of a person's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness: injunctive relief.	Existing law makes any person who knowingly uses another's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of, products, merchandise, goods, or services, without that person's prior consent liable for damages, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 683	California SB 683 (20252026)	bill	Privacy injunctiverelief useofaperson'sname voice signature photograph orlikeness	enacted	Cortese	8	30	9	2025-02-21	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/ce620bbf-e527-41c1-ad7a-52c70075a0a8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB683	25dbb836229b4b24e20d8f5033fab73bcfa068b8f55cc6fc34bd7a1a57bc9bcf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 683 (20252026) — Privacy: use of a person's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness: injunctive relief.

Existing law makes any person who knowingly uses another's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of, products, merchandise, goods, or services, without that person's prior consent liable for damages, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/03/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB683 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 683 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Bauer-Kahan — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB683 Cortese Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cortese — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2025-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2025-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2025-03-05 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 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
• 2025-04-02 Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Set for hearing April 8.
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 706.) (April 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-17 Set for hearing April 28.
• 2025-04-28 April 28 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-05-16 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1209.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1293.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-28 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-05 Referred to Coms. on JUD., P. & C.P., and APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-06-17 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3166.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2883.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 590, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ce620bbf-e527-41c1-ad7a-52c70075a0a8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).