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CA AB 1018

introduced

Automated decision systems.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

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Did CA AB 1018 pass?

Not yet. CA AB 1018 has been introduced but has not advanced to a vote. Latest recorded action (2026-08-30): Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

What is CA AB 1018 about?

The California Fair Employment and Housing Act establishes the Civil Rights Department within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and requires the department to, among other things, bring civil actions to enforce the act. Existing law requires, on or before September 1, 2024, the Department of Technology to conduct, in coordination with other interagency bodies as it deems appropriate, a comprehensive inventory of all high-risk automated decision systems that have been proposed for use, development, or procurement by, or are being used, developed, or procured by, any state agency. This bill would generally regulate the development and deployment of an automated decision system (ADS) used to make consequential decisions, as defined. The bill would define "automated decision system" to mean a computational process derived from machine learning, statistical modeling, data analytics, or artificial intelligence that issues simplified output, including a score, classification, or recommendation, that is designed or used to assist or replace human discretionary decisionmaking and materially impacts natural persons. This bill would require a developer of a covered ADS, as defined, to take certain actions, including conduct impact assessments of the covered ADS and provide deployers to whom the developer transfers the covered ADS with certain information, including a high-level summary of the results of those impact assessments. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2027, require a deployer of a covered ADS to take certain actions, including provide certain disclosures to a subject of a consequential decision made or facilitated by the covered ADS and provide the subject with an opportunity to appeal the outcome of the consequential decision, as prescribed. This bill would require a developer, deployer, or auditor to, within 30 days of receiving a request from the Attorney General, provide an unredacted copy of the impact assessment prepared pursuant to the bill to the Attorney General and would exempt those records from the California Public Records Act. This bill would authorize certain public entities, including the Attorney General, to bring a specified civil action for noncompliance. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Who sponsors CA AB 1018?

Bauer-Kahan is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1018, joined by 5 cosponsors.

Description

The California Fair Employment and Housing Act establishes the Civil Rights Department within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and requires the department to, among other things, bring civil actions to enforce the act. Existing law requires, on or before September 1, 2024, the Department of Technology to conduct, in coordination with other interagency bodies as it deems appropriate, a comprehensive inventory of all high-risk automated decision systems that have been proposed for use, development, or procurement by, or are being used, developed, or procured by, any state agency. This bill would generally regulate the development and deployment of an automated decision system (ADS) used to make consequential decisions, as defined. The bill would define "automated decision system" to mean a computational process derived from machine learning, statistical modeling, data analytics, or artificial intelligence that issues simplified output, including a score, classification, or recommendation, that is designed or used to assist or replace human discretionary decisionmaking and materially impacts natural persons. This bill would require a developer of a covered ADS, as defined, to take certain actions, including conduct impact assessments of the covered ADS and provide deployers to whom the developer transfers the covered ADS with certain information, including a high-level summary of the results of those impact assessments. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2027, require a deployer of a covered ADS to take certain actions, including provide certain disclosures to a subject of a consequential decision made or facilitated by the covered ADS and provide the subject with an opportunity to appeal the outcome of the consequential decision, as prescribed. This bill would require a developer, deployer, or auditor to, within 30 days of receiving a request from the Attorney General, provide an unredacted copy of the impact assessment prepared pursuant to the bill to the Attorney General and would exempt those records from the California Public Records Act. This bill would authorize certain public entities, including the Attorney General, to bring a specified civil action for noncompliance. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Introduced
2025-04-10
Latest action
2026-08-30 — Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Bauer-Kahanauthor
  • Aguiar-Currycoauthor
  • Bryancoauthor
  • Ortegacoauthor
  • Wardcoauthor
  • Padillacoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-08-30

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  2. 2026-08-28

    Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  3. 2026-08-24

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  4. 2026-08-21

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

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  5. 2026-08-21

    From inactive file.

  6. 2026-08-21

    Ordered to second reading.

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  7. 2025-09-13

    Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Wiener.

  8. 2025-09-08

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  9. 2025-09-05

    Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  10. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29).

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  11. 2025-08-29

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  12. 2025-08-18

    In committee: Referred to suspense file.

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  13. 2025-07-17

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  14. 2025-07-16

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (July 15).

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  15. 2025-07-03

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  16. 2025-06-26

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  17. 2025-06-11

    Referred to Com. on JUD.

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  18. 2025-06-03

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  19. 2025-06-02

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 16. Page 1931.)

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  20. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  21. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (May 23).

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  22. 2025-05-14

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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  23. 2025-05-05

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  24. 2025-05-01

    Read second time and amended.

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  25. 2025-04-30

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (April 29).

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  26. 2025-04-23

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  27. 2025-04-21

    Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.

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  28. 2025-04-10

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended.

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  29. 2025-03-28

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  30. 2025-03-10

    Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD.

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  31. 2025-02-21

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

  32. 2025-02-20

    Read first time. To print.

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Versions

  • 02/20/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-20Compare
  • 04/10/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-10Compare
  • 05/01/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-05-01Compare
  • 07/03/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-07-03Compare
  • 07/17/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-07-17Compare
  • 09/05/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-09-05Compare
  • 08/21/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-08-21Compare
  • 08/28/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-08-28Compare
  • AB1018Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]

    2025-04-22 · pass · 9-3

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Macedo: no
    • DeMaio: no
    • Dixon: no
    • Wilson: other
    • Petrie-Norris: other
    • Patterson: other

  • Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-04-29 · pass · 8-3

    Member-level votes (12)
    • Papan: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Macedo: no
    • Dixon: no
    • Sanchez: no
    • Pacheco: other

  • Do pass.

    2025-05-23 · pass · 10-3

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Calderon: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Ta: no
    • Dixon: no
    • Tangipa: no
    • Sanchez: other
    • Arambula: other

  • AB 1018 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading

    2025-06-03 · pass · 50-16

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Addis: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Hoover: no
    • Gallagher: no
    • Chen: no
    • Lackey: no
    • Ta: no
    • Davies: no
    • Ellis: no
    • Patterson: no
    • Tangipa: no
    • Jeff Gonzalez: no
    • Hadwick: no
    • Macedo: no
    • Castillo: no
    • Dixon: no
    • DeMaio: no
    • Sanchez: no
    • Carrillo: other
    • Petrie-Norris: other
    • Michelle Rodriguez: other
    • Ramos: other
    • Soria: other
    • Wallis: other
    • Ahrens: other
    • Flora: other
    • Alanis: other
    • Bains: other
    • Pacheco: other
    • Valencia: other
    • Ransom: other

  • Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-07-15 · pass · 11-2

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Caballero: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Valladares: no
    • Niello: no

  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Grayson: yes

  • Do pass

    2025-08-29 · pass · 5-2

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Dahle: no
    • Seyarto: no

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