CA AB 2561
enactedOperating systems and applications: privacy settings.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did CA AB 2561 pass?
Yes. CA AB 2561 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2026-09-27): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 478, Statutes of 2026.
What is CA AB 2561 about?
Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, 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. Existing law, beginning January 1, 2027, prohibits 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. This bill would prohibit an operating system or an application from undoing a user's affirmative configuration of a user's privacy setting without the user's consent, except as specified. The bill would define "privacy setting" to mean any user-configurable option within an application's privacy, or similarly labeled, menu that governs the application's collection, use, sharing, disclosure, retention, or processing of the user's personal information.
Who sponsors CA AB 2561?
Valencia is the primary sponsor of CA AB 2561.
Description
Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, 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. Existing law, beginning January 1, 2027, prohibits 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. This bill would prohibit an operating system or an application from undoing a user's affirmative configuration of a user's privacy setting without the user's consent, except as specified. The bill would define "privacy setting" to mean any user-configurable option within an application's privacy, or similarly labeled, menu that governs the application's collection, use, sharing, disclosure, retention, or processing of the user's personal information.
- Introduced
- 2026-04-22
- Latest action
- 2026-09-27 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 478, Statutes of 2026.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Valenciaauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2026-09-27
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 478, Statutes of 2026.
became-law
2026-09-27
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2026-09-03
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
executive-receipt
2026-08-26
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-08-26
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2026-08-26
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-08-26
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6650.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-08-24
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-08-20
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-06-10
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-06-09
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 8).
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2026-05-27
Referred to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P.
referral-committee
2026-05-14
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2026-05-14
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5039.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-04-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-04-23
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2026-04-22
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 21).
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2026-03-09
Referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
referral-committee
2026-02-21
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-02-20
Read first time. To print.
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Votes
Do pass as amended.
2026-04-21 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Bryan: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Patterson: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Macedo: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Ward: yes
AB 2561 Valencia Assembly Third Reading
2026-05-14 · pass · 77-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Flora: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Chen: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Berman: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Soria: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Solache: yes
- Wilson: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Papan: yes
- Davies: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Lee: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ward: yes
- Krell: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ta: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Bains: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Patel: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Arambula: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Bennett: other
Do pass
2026-06-08 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Padilla: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Jones: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
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