Violent posts.
Summary
Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, requires a business, as defined, that receives a verifiable consumer request from a consumer to delete the consumer's personal information, as defined, to delete the consumer's personal information from its records, as prescribed. This bill would require a social media platform with 1,000,000 or more discrete monthly users, as defined, to clearly and conspicuously state whether it has a mechanism for reporting violent posts, as defined, that is available to users and nonusers of the platform. The bill would authorize a person who is the target of a violent post, or reasonably believes the person is the target of a violent post, to seek an order requiring the social media platform to remove the violent post and any related violent post the court determines shall be removed in the interests of justice, as prescribed.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2022
Committee Review
Jun 2022
Senate Passage
May 2022
Assembly Passage
Aug 2022
Signed into Law
Sep 2022
Introduced Feb 15, 2022
Signed Sep 30, 2022
Floor votes · Senate May 25, 2022 · Assembly Aug 23, 2022
How they voted
32–0
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 37
May 25, 2022
D
Democratic29
96% Yea
R
Republican8
50% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
31
Key actions
14
Committee
5
Amendments
10
Sep 30, 2022
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor.
legislature
Aug 30, 2022
Upper · Passed
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5305.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
upper
Aug 24, 2022
Introduced
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
upper
Aug 23, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.
lower
Aug 15, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
lower
Aug 11, 2022
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 11).
lower
Jun 29, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
lower
Jun 28, 2022
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 28).
lower
Jun 23, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
lower
Jun 22, 2022
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 21).
lower
Jun 2, 2022
Committee
Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD.
lower
May 25, 2022
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 3905.) Ordered to the Assembly.
upper
May 19, 2022
Upper · Passed
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3781.) (May 19).
upper
Apr 20, 2022
Upper · Passed
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3436.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
upper
Apr 7, 2022
Upper · Passed
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
upper
Mar 23, 2022
Committee
Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR.
upper
Mar 16, 2022
Upper · Passed
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
upper
Feb 23, 2022
Committee
Referred to Com. on RLS.
upper
Feb 15, 2022
Introduced
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
upper
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Tom Umberg
DDemocratic
Co
Jordan Cunningham
RRepublican
Co
Laurie Davies
RRepublican
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