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type: "Bill"
title: "State government."
description: "(1) Existing law, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, among other things, requires a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to comply with specified requirements, including a requirement to configure all default privacy settings offered by the online service, product, or feature to the settings that offer a high level of privacy, unless the business can demonstrate a compelling reason that a different setting is in the best interests of children, and to provide privacy information, terms of service, policies, and community standards concisely, prominently, and using clear language suited to the age of children likely to access that online service, product, or feature."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 127"
citation: "California AB 127 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["State government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/496962ad-5e1b-4e81-8c32-acd15c9ed698"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB127"
source_hash: "5294f4ca9a3a026bb94c9415aeadcd18fe9934d6a6b0250ac377c94f94471c32"
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 127 (20232024) — State government.
(1) Existing law, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, among other things, requires a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to comply with specified requirements, including a requirement to configure all default privacy settings offered by the online service, product, or feature to the settings that offer a high level of privacy, unless the business can demonstrate a compelling reason that a different setting is in the best interests of children, and to provide privacy information, terms of service, policies, and community standards concisely, prominently, and using clear language suited to the age of children likely to access that online service, product, or feature.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/09/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB127&version=20230AB12799INT)
2. **02/01/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB127&version=20230AB12798AMD)
3. **06/24/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB127&version=20230AB12797AMD)
4. **07/10/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB127&version=20230AB12795CHP)
5. **AB127** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB127)
6. **06/27/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB127&version=20230AB12796ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass — **132** (pass) · upper
- AB 127 Budget Assembly Third Reading By TING — **6014** (pass) · lower
- AB 127 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING — **742** (pass) · lower
- 2nd Reading AB127 BUDGET (Ting) By Skinner — **327** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Committee on Budget — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-10** From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on BUDGET. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-02-02** Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-20** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 61. Noes 17. Page 732.)
- **2023-03-20** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2023-03-20** Ordered to second reading.
- **2023-03-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 14. Page 842.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-03-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-12** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (June 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-27** Senate Rules Suspended (Ayes 32. Noes 8.)
- **2023-06-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 1765.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-06-27** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 2420.)
- **2023-06-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2420.)
- **2023-06-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 2. Page 2420.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2023-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 45, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/496962ad-5e1b-4e81-8c32-acd15c9ed698`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).