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CA AB 656

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Account cancellation.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 656 pass?

Yes. CA AB 656 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-08. Latest recorded action (2025-10-08): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 464, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 656 about?

Existing law generally regulates social media platforms, including by requiring a social media company to post terms of service for each social media platform owned or operated by the company in a manner reasonably designed to inform all users of the social media platform of the existence and contents of the terms of service, as prescribed. 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, including the right to request that a business delete personal information about the consumer that the business has collected from the consumer, as specified. Existing law, the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, an initiative measure approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA. This bill would require a social media platform to provide a clear and conspicuous button that enables the user to delete their account and provide the user with the necessary steps to delete the user's account and personal information if the user clicks on that button, in accordance with specified procedures. The bill would prohibit a social media platform from obstructing or interfering with a user's ability to delete their account, as specified. The bill would provide that a user's request to delete an account constitutes a request to delete the consumer's personal information under the CCPA.

Who sponsors CA AB 656?

Schiavo is the primary sponsor of CA AB 656, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Description

Existing law generally regulates social media platforms, including by requiring a social media company to post terms of service for each social media platform owned or operated by the company in a manner reasonably designed to inform all users of the social media platform of the existence and contents of the terms of service, as prescribed. 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, including the right to request that a business delete personal information about the consumer that the business has collected from the consumer, as specified. Existing law, the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, an initiative measure approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA. This bill would require a social media platform to provide a clear and conspicuous button that enables the user to delete their account and provide the user with the necessary steps to delete the user's account and personal information if the user clicks on that button, in accordance with specified procedures. The bill would prohibit a social media platform from obstructing or interfering with a user's ability to delete their account, as specified. The bill would provide that a user's request to delete an account constitutes a request to delete the consumer's personal information under the CCPA.

Introduced
2025-03-24
Latest action
2025-10-08 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 464, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Schiavoauthor
  • Lowenthalcoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-13

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-14

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.

  3. 2025-03-24

    Referred to Com. on P. & C.P.

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  4. 2025-03-24

    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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  5. 2025-03-25

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

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  6. 2025-05-07

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 6).

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  7. 2025-05-08

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

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  8. 2025-05-12

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  9. 2025-05-19

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1596.)

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  10. 2025-05-20

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

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  11. 2025-05-28

    Referred to Com. on JUD.

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  12. 2025-06-12

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

  13. 2025-06-23

    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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  14. 2025-07-02

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 1).

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  15. 2025-07-03

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  16. 2025-09-04

    Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  17. 2025-09-08

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  18. 2025-09-09

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2748.).

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  19. 2025-09-09

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  20. 2025-09-10

    Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3198.).

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  21. 2025-09-22

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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  22. 2025-10-08

    Approved by the Governor.

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  23. 2025-10-08

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 464, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/13/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-13Compare
  • 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-24Compare
  • 05/08/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-05-08Compare
  • 06/23/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-06-23Compare
  • 09/04/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-09-04Compare
  • 09/12/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-12Compare
  • 10/08/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-08Compare
  • AB656Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass as amended.

    2025-05-06 · pass · 14-0

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

  • AB 656 Schiavo Assembly Third Reading

    2025-05-19 · pass · 71-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Solache: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Ellis: other
    • Papan: other
    • Dixon: other
    • Bains: other
    • Gallagher: other
    • Flora: other
    • Tangipa: other
    • Jeff Gonzalez: other

  • Do pass

    2025-07-01 · pass · 13-0

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

  • 3rd Reading AB656 Schiavo et al. By Ashby

    2025-09-09 · pass · 40-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Blakespear: yes

  • AB 656 Schiavo Concurrence in Senate Amendments

    2025-09-11 · pass · 77-0

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

Related bills

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