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Bill	Elections: deceptive media in advertisements.	Existing law prohibits certain distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media of a candidate within 60 days of an election at which the candidate will appear on the ballot, unless the media includes a disclosure stating that the media has been manipulated, subject to specified exemptions. Existing law authorizes a candidate whose voice or likeness appears in audio or visual media distributed in violation of these provisions to file specified actions, and it requires a court to place such proceedings on the calendar in the order of their date of filing and give the proceedings precedence.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2839	California AB 2839 (20232024)	bill	Elections deceptive media in advertisements	enacted	Pellerin	10	32	10	2024-02-15	2024-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/917fedef-e671-42a6-b8d0-1cfb699983b7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2839	c2e33a3ff685a8b85d9ff21c131793a5144345e044ec2cd1e2d563c5fb5e694b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2839 (20232024) — Elections: deceptive media in advertisements.

Existing law prohibits certain distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media of a candidate within 60 days of an election at which the candidate will appear on the ballot, unless the media includes a disclosure stating that the media has been manipulated, subject to specified exemptions. Existing law authorizes a candidate whose voice or likeness appears in audio or visual media distributed in violation of these provisions to file specified actions, and it requires a court to place such proceedings on the calendar in the order of their date of filing and give the proceedings precedence.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/02/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/24/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/15/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/17/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB2839 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/04/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 2839 Pellerin Assembly Third Reading — 59–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2839 Pellerin Concurrence - Urgency Added — 63–8 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2839 Pellerin et al. By Blakespear Urgency Clause — 32–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Pellerin — primary (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Bennett — coauthor (person)
• Berman — author (person)
• Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)
• Valencia — coauthor (person)
• Weber — coauthor (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2024-03-21 Referred to Coms. on ELECTIONS and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-04-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 10). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-11 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (April 30). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-05-02 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-06 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-05-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-05-16 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5215.)
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 4. Page 5511.) 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 Coms. on E. & C.A., JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (July 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. 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. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 5.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-08-30 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 63. Noes 8.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 262, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/917fedef-e671-42a6-b8d0-1cfb699983b7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).