republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2481.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Social media-related threats: reporting."
description: "The Cyberbullying Protection Act requires a social media platform to disclose all cyberbullying reporting procedures in the social media platform's terms of service and to establish a mechanism within its internet-based service that allows an individual, whether or not that individual has a profile on the internet-based service, to report cyberbullying or any content that violates the existing terms of service. Existing law requires the reporting mechanism to allow, but not require, an individual to upload a screenshot of the content that contains cyberbullying or violates the terms of service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2481"
citation: "California AB 2481 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Social media-related threats", "reporting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowenthal"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-13"
last_action: "2024-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53d6e499-9a7c-4d19-9ce0-ef70ce9e7109"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2481"
source_hash: "79e9e0fb43ac132dd156b55b07a404dcda82e61b57defb2812bee0da994e02fc"
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 2481 (20232024) — Social media-related threats: reporting.

The Cyberbullying Protection Act requires a social media platform to disclose all cyberbullying reporting procedures in the social media platform's terms of service and to establish a mechanism within its internet-based service that allows an individual, whether or not that individual has a profile on the internet-based service, to report cyberbullying or any content that violates the existing terms of service. Existing law requires the reporting mechanism to allow, but not require, an individual to upload a screenshot of the content that contains cyberbullying or violates the terms of service.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2481&version=20230AB248199INT)
2. **03/21/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2481&version=20230AB248198AMD)
3. **04/15/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2481&version=20230AB248197AMD)
4. **04/22/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2481&version=20230AB248196AMD)
5. **04/23/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2481&version=20230AB248195AMD)
6. **05/07/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2481&version=20230AB248194AMD)
7. **08/05/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2481&version=20230AB248193AMD)
8. **08/23/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2481&version=20230AB248192AMD)
9. **09/28/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2481&version=20230AB248190CHP)
10. **AB2481** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2481)
11. **09/05/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2481&version=20230AB248191ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2481 Lowenthal Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **58–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2481 Lowenthal et al. By Stern — **31–3** (pass) · upper
- AB 2481 Lowenthal Assembly Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lowenthal — primary (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
- **2024-03-21** Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** 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`
- **2024-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** 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`
- **2024-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** 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`
- **2024-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-23** 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`
- **2024-04-24** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-06** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 30). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-05-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 0. Page 5510.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-06-05** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 2). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-08-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 2.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2024-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 832, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53d6e499-9a7c-4d19-9ce0-ef70ce9e7109`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).