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CA AB 2007

enacted

Youth programs: identifying information of youth.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

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Did CA AB 2007 pass?

Yes. CA AB 2007 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2026-09-30): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 914, Statutes of 2026.

What is CA AB 2007 about?

Existing law makes a person who knowingly uses another's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, in any manner, on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of, products, merchandise, goods, or services, without that person's prior consent, or, in the case of a minor, the prior consent of the person's parent or legal guardian, liable for damages, as specified, among other remedies, as prescribed. Existing law generally regulates organizations and businesses that provide athletic, instructional, or other services to minors by imposing disclosure, training, background check, and child abuse prevention requirements on those entities and their personnel. This bill would prohibit an entity or organization that operates a specified nonschool youth program from using certain identifying information of a youth, including their picture, video, audio recording, likeness, and attributed statements, for communications, marketing, or other purpose that exposes that information to the public unless the entity or organization obtains the parent or guardian's express written consent on a specified notice. The bill would prohibit the entity or organization from making a youth's enrollment or participation in the program contingent upon a parent or guardian consenting to the program's use of the youth's information for any communications, marketing, or other purpose that exposes that information to the public. The bill would authorize a parent or guardian to revoke consent, as specified. This bill would authorize a parent or guardian to bring a civil action against an entity or organization for noncompliance with these provisions and would provide for specified remedies, including, among others, specified civil penalties per youth who has had the youth's information disclosed and injunctive or declaratory relief.

Who sponsors CA AB 2007?

Bauer-Kahan is the primary sponsor of CA AB 2007, joined by 2 cosponsors.

Description

Existing law makes a person who knowingly uses another's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, in any manner, on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of, products, merchandise, goods, or services, without that person's prior consent, or, in the case of a minor, the prior consent of the person's parent or legal guardian, liable for damages, as specified, among other remedies, as prescribed. Existing law generally regulates organizations and businesses that provide athletic, instructional, or other services to minors by imposing disclosure, training, background check, and child abuse prevention requirements on those entities and their personnel. This bill would prohibit an entity or organization that operates a specified nonschool youth program from using certain identifying information of a youth, including their picture, video, audio recording, likeness, and attributed statements, for communications, marketing, or other purpose that exposes that information to the public unless the entity or organization obtains the parent or guardian's express written consent on a specified notice. The bill would prohibit the entity or organization from making a youth's enrollment or participation in the program contingent upon a parent or guardian consenting to the program's use of the youth's information for any communications, marketing, or other purpose that exposes that information to the public. The bill would authorize a parent or guardian to revoke consent, as specified. This bill would authorize a parent or guardian to bring a civil action against an entity or organization for noncompliance with these provisions and would provide for specified remedies, including, among others, specified civil penalties per youth who has had the youth's information disclosed and injunctive or declaratory relief.

Introduced
2026-03-17
Latest action
2026-09-30 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 914, Statutes of 2026.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Bauer-Kahanauthor
  • Macedocoauthor
  • Pellerincoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-09-30

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 914, Statutes of 2026.

    became-law

  2. 2026-09-30

    Approved by the Governor.

    executive-signature

  3. 2026-09-04

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

    executive-receipt

  4. 2026-08-27

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  5. 2026-08-27

    Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.).

    amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable

  6. 2026-08-27

    Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6712.).

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  7. 2026-08-26

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.).

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  8. 2026-08-24

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  9. 2026-08-21

    Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  10. 2026-08-13

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  11. 2026-08-13

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 13).

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  12. 2026-08-03

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

    referral-committee

  13. 2026-07-02

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29).

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  14. 2026-07-02

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

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  15. 2026-06-24

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P.

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  16. 2026-06-15

    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,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee

  17. 2026-06-03

    Referred to Coms. on JUD., P., D.T., & C.P. and APPR.

    referral-committee

  18. 2026-05-21

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

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  19. 2026-05-21

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5224.)

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  20. 2026-05-18

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  21. 2026-05-14

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).

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  22. 2026-05-06

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

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  23. 2026-04-28

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  24. 2026-03-25

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  25. 2026-03-25

    Coauthors revised.

  26. 2026-03-18

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

    referral-committee

  27. 2026-03-17

    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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  28. 2026-03-09

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

    referral-committee

  29. 2026-02-18

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.

  30. 2026-02-17

    Read first time. To print.

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Versions

  • 02/17/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-17Compare
  • 03/17/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-03-17Compare
  • 06/15/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-06-15Compare
  • 07/02/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-07-02Compare
  • 08/21/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-08-21Compare
  • 09/01/26 - Enrolled — 2026-09-01Compare
  • 09/30/26 - Chaptered — 2026-09-30Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare
  • AB2007Compare

Documents

Votes

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

    2026-03-25 · pass · 15-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Patterson: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Irwin: yes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2026-04-28 · pass · 12-0

    Member-level votes (12)
    • Connolly: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Zbur: yes

  • Do pass.

    2026-05-14 · pass · 15-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Dixon: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Mark González: yes

  • AB 2007 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading

    2026-05-21 · pass · 72-0

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Ta: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: other
    • Ramos: other
    • Irwin: other
    • Garcia: other
    • Lackey: other
    • Arambula: other
    • Hoover: other
    • Chen: other

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection]

    2026-06-23 · pass · 13-0

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Ashby: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Niello: yes

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

    2026-06-29 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (9)
    • Wiener: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Seyarto: other
    • Ochoa Bogh: other

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2007

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