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type: "Bill"
title: "Privacy: California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018."
description: "Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants, commencing on January 1, 2020, a consumer various rights with regard to personal information relating to that consumer that is held by a business. The act, among other things, requires a business that collects personal information about a consumer to disclose the consumer's right to delete personal information in a form that is reasonably accessible to consumers and in accordance with a specified process. The act, until January 1, 2021, exempts from its provisions certain information collected by a business about a natural person in the course of the natural person acting as a job applicant, employee, owner, director, officer, medical staff member, or contractor, as specified. The act also, until January 1, 2021, exempts from specified provisions personal information reflecting a written or verbal communication or a transaction between the business and the consumer, if the consumer is a natural person who is acting as an employee, owner, director, officer, or contractor of a company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency and whose communications or transaction with the business occur solely within the context of the business conducting due diligence regarding, or providing or receiving a product or service to or from that company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1281"
citation: "California AB 1281 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Privacy: California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chau"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 40
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2020-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c6761cb-4325-4490-9533-bcc715868c0c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1281"
source_hash: "483f5e288ee830886328afa5e248992681581199854c80548516a7d5d6afd244"
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 1281 (20192020) — Privacy: California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.
Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants, commencing on January 1, 2020, a consumer various rights with regard to personal information relating to that consumer that is held by a business. The act, among other things, requires a business that collects personal information about a consumer to disclose the consumer's right to delete personal information in a form that is reasonably accessible to consumers and in accordance with a specified process. The act, until January 1, 2021, exempts from its provisions certain information collected by a business about a natural person in the course of the natural person acting as a job applicant, employee, owner, director, officer, medical staff member, or contractor, as specified. The act also, until January 1, 2021, exempts from specified provisions personal information reflecting a written or verbal communication or a transaction between the business and the consumer, if the consumer is a natural person who is acting as an employee, owner, director, officer, or contractor of a company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency and whose communications or transaction with the business occur solely within the context of the business conducting due diligence regarding, or providing or receiving a product or service to or from that company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1281&version=20190AB128199INT)
2. **04/02/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1281&version=20190AB128198AMD)
3. **04/10/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1281&version=20190AB128197AMD)
4. **04/12/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1281&version=20190AB128196AMD)
5. **06/21/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1281&version=20190AB128195AMD)
6. **06/25/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1281&version=20190AB128193AMD)
7. **07/05/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1281&version=20190AB128194AMD)
8. **09/29/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1281&version=20190AB128191CHP)
9. **AB1281** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1281)
10. **09/01/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1281&version=20190AB128192ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1281 Chau Assembly Third Reading — **61–13** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1281 Chau Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB1281 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **8–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–2** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Chau — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2019-03-11** Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (March 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-04-22** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-04-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 13. Page 1357.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-08** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-27** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-05** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-12** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-10** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Wieckowski.
- **2020-06-25** From inactive file.
- **2020-06-25** Ordered to second reading.
- **2020-06-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-26** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-01** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2020-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4379.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2020-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5320.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2020-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 268, Statutes of 2020.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c6761cb-4325-4490-9533-bcc715868c0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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