republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-1094.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Disposal of personal information."
description: "Existing law requires a business to take all reasonable steps to destroy, or arrange for the destruction of, a customer's records within its custody or control containing personal information that is no longer to be retained by the business by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the personal information in those records to make it unreadable or undecipherable through any means. Existing law provides for specified civil remedies for a violation of these provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1094"
citation: "California AB 1094 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Disposal of personal information."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Conway"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2009-02-27"
last_action: "2009-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5d4e3d7-ddbe-41ca-8ad3-0fa5ec82b025"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1094"
source_hash: "d50278d6027bd88ce26e753f0c15596be7ec4a9bf9d1fa72ba6052af13a3d22e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1094 (20092010) — Disposal of personal information.

Existing law requires a business to take all reasonable steps to destroy, or arrange for the destruction of, a customer's records within its custody or control containing personal information that is no longer to be retained by the business by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the personal information in those records to make it unreadable or undecipherable through any means. Existing law provides for specified civil remedies for a violation of these provisions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/27/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1094&version=20090AB109499INT)
2. **04/02/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1094&version=20090AB109498AMD)
3. **04/21/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1094&version=20090AB109497AMD)
4. **05/26/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1094&version=20090AB109496AMD)
5. **06/30/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1094&version=20090AB109495AMD)
6. **08/06/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1094&version=20090AB109493CHP)
7. **AB1094** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1094)
8. **07/15/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1094&version=20090AB109494ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1094 CONWAY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1094 CONWAY Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent #12 AB1094 Conway — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Conway — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-27** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2009-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
- **2009-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2009-03-31** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-13** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-26** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 1659.). `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-28** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1723.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-11** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-30** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-07-02** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-07-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1668.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-07-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-07-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2472.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-07-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2009-08-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-08-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 134, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5d4e3d7-ddbe-41ca-8ad3-0fa5ec82b025`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).