CA SB 300
withdrawnCompanion chatbots.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
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Quick answers
Did CA SB 300 pass?
No. CA SB 300 was withdrawn and is no longer under consideration. Latest recorded action (2026-08-30): Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
What is CA SB 300 about?
Existing law requires that if a reasonable person interacting with a companion chatbot, as defined, would be misled to believe that the person is interacting with a human, an operator of a companion chatbot platform must issue a clear and conspicuous notification indicating that the companion chatbot is artificially generated and not human. Existing law requires a chatbot operator to maintain a protocol for preventing the production of suicidal ideation, suicide, or self-harm content to the user, as specified, and would require an operator to publish details on that protocol on the operator's internet website. Existing law requires an operator to take certain actions with respect to a user the operator knows is a minor, including instituting reasonable measures to prevent the companion chatbot from producing sexually explicit visual material or proposing sexually explicit conduct. This bill would instead require a companion chatbot operator to take the above actions when it has constructive knowledge that a user is a minor. This bill would instead require an operator to prevent its companion chatbot from producing or facilitating the exchange of any sexually explicit material or proposing sexually explicit conduct.
Who sponsors CA SB 300?
Padilla is the primary sponsor of CA SB 300.
Description
Existing law requires that if a reasonable person interacting with a companion chatbot, as defined, would be misled to believe that the person is interacting with a human, an operator of a companion chatbot platform must issue a clear and conspicuous notification indicating that the companion chatbot is artificially generated and not human. Existing law requires a chatbot operator to maintain a protocol for preventing the production of suicidal ideation, suicide, or self-harm content to the user, as specified, and would require an operator to publish details on that protocol on the operator's internet website. Existing law requires an operator to take certain actions with respect to a user the operator knows is a minor, including instituting reasonable measures to prevent the companion chatbot from producing sexually explicit visual material or proposing sexually explicit conduct. This bill would instead require a companion chatbot operator to take the above actions when it has constructive knowledge that a user is a minor. This bill would instead require an operator to prevent its companion chatbot from producing or facilitating the exchange of any sexually explicit material or proposing sexually explicit conduct.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-10
- Latest action
- 2026-08-30 — Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Padillaauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2026-08-30
Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
2026-08-13
Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
2026-08-13
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 13).
2026-08-13
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2026-08-05
August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
2026-07-02
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-05-11
Referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
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2026-01-26
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2026-01-26
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3279.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2026-01-21
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-01-20
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
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2026-01-15
Set for hearing January 20.
2026-01-14
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 3213.) (January 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-01-06
Set for hearing January 13.
2026-01-05
Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2026-01-05
Withdrawn from committee.
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2026-01-05
Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
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2026-01-05
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
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2025-04-25
April 29 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-04-04
Set for hearing April 29.
2025-04-01
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
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2025-02-19
Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
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2025-02-11
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
2025-02-10
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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Votes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-01-13 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Wahab: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Stern: yes
- Allen: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Laird: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Niello: yes
- Wiener: yes
3rd Reading
2026-01-26 · pass · 38-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Grayson: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Becker: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Strickland: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Stern: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Laird: yes
- Choi: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Pérez: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Limón: yes
- Allen: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Niello: yes
- Grove: yes
- Gonzalez: other
- Jones: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-07-01 · pass · 12-1
Member-level votes (15)
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Ward: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- DeMaio: no
- Macedo: other
- Irwin: other
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