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CA AB 446

introduced

Surveillance pricing.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 446 pass?

Not yet. CA AB 446 has been introduced as of 2025-09-10 but has not advanced to a vote. Latest recorded action (2025-09-10): Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator McNerney.

What is CA AB 446 about?

Existing law, 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. Existing law, 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 those provisions. Existing law requires a retail grocery store or grocery department within a general retail merchandise store that uses a point-of-sale system to have a clearly readable price indicated on 85% of the total number of packaged consumer commodities offered for sale, subject to specified exemptions. This bill would, subject to certain exceptions, prohibit a grocery establishment, as defined, from engaging in surveillance pricing. The bill would define "surveillance pricing" to mean offering or setting a customized price increase for a good or service for a specific consumer or group of consumers, based, in whole or in part, on personally identifiable information collected through electronic surveillance technology, as specified. The bill would provide that only a public prosecutor, as specified, may bring an action against a violator of these provisions to recover specified civil penalties, injunctive relief, and reasonable attorney's fees and costs, and would authorize a consumer to bring an action for injunctive relief and reasonable attorney's fees and costs. The bill would declare that any waiver of these provisions is against public policy and is void and unenforceable. This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020.

Who sponsors CA AB 446?

Ward is the primary sponsor of CA AB 446, joined by 2 cosponsors.

Description

Existing law, 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. Existing law, 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 those provisions. Existing law requires a retail grocery store or grocery department within a general retail merchandise store that uses a point-of-sale system to have a clearly readable price indicated on 85% of the total number of packaged consumer commodities offered for sale, subject to specified exemptions. This bill would, subject to certain exceptions, prohibit a grocery establishment, as defined, from engaging in surveillance pricing. The bill would define "surveillance pricing" to mean offering or setting a customized price increase for a good or service for a specific consumer or group of consumers, based, in whole or in part, on personally identifiable information collected through electronic surveillance technology, as specified. The bill would provide that only a public prosecutor, as specified, may bring an action against a violator of these provisions to recover specified civil penalties, injunctive relief, and reasonable attorney's fees and costs, and would authorize a consumer to bring an action for injunctive relief and reasonable attorney's fees and costs. The bill would declare that any waiver of these provisions is against public policy and is void and unenforceable. This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020.

Introduced
2025-03-19
Latest action
2025-09-10 — Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator McNerney.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Wardauthor
  • Ortegacoauthor
  • Wilsoncoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-06

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-07

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.

  3. 2025-02-18

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

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  4. 2025-03-19

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (March 18).

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  5. 2025-03-20

    Read second time and amended.

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  6. 2025-03-24

    Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  7. 2025-03-28

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  8. 2025-05-01

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

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  9. 2025-05-05

    Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  10. 2025-05-06

    Coauthors revised.

  11. 2025-05-06

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (May 6).

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  12. 2025-05-07

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  13. 2025-05-12

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 20. Page 1516.)

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  14. 2025-05-13

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

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  15. 2025-05-21

    Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR.

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  16. 2025-07-16

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (July 15).

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  17. 2025-07-17

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

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  18. 2025-08-18

    In committee: Referred to suspense file.

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  19. 2025-08-29

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

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  20. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (August 29).

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  21. 2025-09-02

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  22. 2025-09-10

    Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator McNerney.

Versions

  • 02/06/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-06Compare
  • 03/20/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-20Compare
  • 05/01/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-05-01Compare
  • 07/17/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-07-17Compare
  • 08/29/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-08-29Compare
  • AB446Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

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

    2025-03-18 · pass · 10-3

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

  • Do pass.

    2025-05-06 · pass · 8-3

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

  • AB 446 Ward Assembly Third Reading

    2025-05-12 · pass · 47-20

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

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

    2025-07-15 · pass · 10-2

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

  • 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 as amended

    2025-08-29 · pass · 4-2

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

Related bills

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