CA AB 566

enacted

California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: opt-out preference signal.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal information that is collected or sold by a business, as defined, including the right to direct a business that sells or shares personal information about the consumer to third parties not to sell or share the consumer's personal information, as specified. The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA and establishes the California Privacy Protection Agency and vests the agency with full administrative power, authority, and jurisdiction to enforce the CCPA. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2027, prohibit a business from developing or maintaining a browser, as defined, that does not include functionality configurable by a consumer that enables the browser to send an opt-out preference signal, as defined, to businesses with which the consumer interacts through the browser, as prescribed. The bill would require a business that develops or maintains a browser to make clear to a consumer in its public disclosures how the opt-out preference signal works and the intended effect of the opt-out preference signal. The bill would grant a business that develops or maintains a browser that includes this functionality immunity from liability for a violation of those provisions by a business that receives the opt-out preference signal. The bill would authorize the agency to adopt regulations as necessary to implement and administer those provisions. This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020.

Introduced: 2025-04-07
Status date: —
Latest action: 2025-10-08 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 465, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2025-02-12
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2025-02-13
From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
2025-02-24
Referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
referral-committee
2025-03-14
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-04-07
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 1).
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,referral-committee
2025-04-08
Read second time and amended.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2025-04-09
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
referral-committee
2025-04-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 23).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-04-24
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-02
Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1951.)
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-06-05
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 1. Page 2114.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-06-09
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-06-18
Referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee
2025-07-02
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-07-14
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2025-07-15
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-09-05
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2025-09-08
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-09-10
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 2812.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-09-10
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-11
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 3. Page 3294.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-23
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
executive-receipt
2025-10-08
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-10-08
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 465, Statutes of 2025.
became-law

Versions

02/12/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-12Compare
04/08/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-08Compare
06/02/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-06-02Compare
09/05/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-09-05Compare
09/15/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-15Compare
10/08/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-08Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-01 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Berman: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Ward: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Dixon: other
- Patterson: other
- DeMaio: other
- Macedo: other
- Bauer-Kahan: other
- Petrie-Norris: other
Do pass.
2025-04-23 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Pacheco: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Hart: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Fong: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Sanchez: other
- Ta: other
- Tangipa: other
- Dixon: other
AB 566 Lowenthal Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-06 · pass · 53-1
Member-level votes (79)
- Bonta: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Berman: yes
- Soria: yes
- Zbur: yes
- DeMaio: no
- Gallagher: other
- Castillo: other
- Hadwick: other
- Petrie-Norris: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Patel: other
- Flora: other
- Alanis: other
- Wallis: other
- Ortega: other
- Macedo: other
- Patterson: other
- Bains: other
- Lackey: other
- Dixon: other
- Chen: other
- Sanchez: other
- Papan: other
- Michelle Rodriguez: other
- Davies: other
- Irwin: other
- Hoover: other
- Ta: other
- Ellis: other
- Tangipa: other
- Schultz: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Solache: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Haney: yes
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ward: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Fong: yes
- Addis: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Hart: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Rivas: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Lee: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-01 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Durazo: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Stern: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Laird: yes
- Allen: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Valladares: other
- Niello: other
3rd Reading AB566 Lowenthal et al. By Stern
2025-09-10 · pass · 31-7
Member-level votes (40)
- Umberg: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Limón: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Laird: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Rubio: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Stern: yes
- Allen: yes
- Caballero: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Becker: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Choi: no
- Strickland: no
- Grove: no
- Jones: no
- Ochoa Bogh: no
- Alvarado-Gil: no
- Seyarto: no
- Valladares: other
- Niello: other
AB 566 Lowenthal Concurrence in Senate Amendments
2025-09-11 · pass · 57-3
Member-level votes (80)
- Ahrens: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Fong: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Soria: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Lee: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Johnson: no
- Macedo: no
- DeMaio: no
- Dixon: other
- Bains: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Castillo: other
- Alanis: other
- Wallis: other
- Patterson: other
- Ta: other
- Hoover: other
- Petrie-Norris: other
- Gallagher: other
- Ellis: other
- Davies: other
- Hadwick: other
- Irwin: other
- Tangipa: other
- Lackey: other
- Sanchez: other
- Chen: other
- Flora: other

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