Law enforcement contact process: search warrants.
Summary
Existing law generally regulates a social media platform, including by requiring a social media platform to clearly and conspicuously state whether it has a mechanism for reporting violent posts that is available to users and nonusers of the social media platform and to include a link to that reporting mechanism, as prescribed. This bill would require a social media platform to maintain a law enforcement contact process that, among other things, makes available a staffed hotline for law enforcement personnel for purposes of receiving, and responding to, requests for information. The bill would, except as prescribed, also require a social media platform to comply with a search warrant within 72 hours if the search warrant is provided to the social media platform by a law enforcement agency, the subject of the search warrant is information associated with an account on the social media platform, and that information is controlled by a user of the social media platform. This bill would not apply to a social media platform with fewer than 1,000,000 discrete monthly users and would make its provisions operative on July 1, 2025.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Aug 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Assembly Passage
Aug 2024
Signed into Law
Sep 2024
Introduced Jan 10, 2024
Signed Sep 29, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 20, 2024 · Assembly Aug 28, 2024
How they voted
39–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
May 20, 2024
D
Democratic31
96% Yea
R
Republican9
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
31
Key actions
15
Committee
6
Amendments
11
Sep 29, 2024
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor.
legislature
Aug 30, 2024
Upper · Passed
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 1. Page 5739.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
upper
Aug 29, 2024
Upper · Passed
From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 5700.)
upper
Aug 29, 2024
Upper · Passed
From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 5629.) Re-referred to Com. on PUB S.
upper
Aug 29, 2024
Committee
Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d).
upper
Aug 28, 2024
Introduced
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
upper
Aug 28, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6688.) Ordered to the Senate.
lower
Aug 22, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time and amended.
lower
Aug 19, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time and amended.
lower
Aug 8, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time and amended.
lower
Aug 5, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
lower
Jul 3, 2024
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2).
lower
Jun 20, 2024
Lower · Passed
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
lower
May 28, 2024
Committee
Referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
lower
May 20, 2024
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4016.) Ordered to the Assembly.
upper
May 2, 2024
Upper · Passed
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
upper
May 1, 2024
Upper · Passed
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3819.) (April 30).
upper
Apr 3, 2024
Committee
Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
upper
Mar 18, 2024
Upper · Passed
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
upper
Feb 14, 2024
Committee
Referred to Com. on RLS.
upper
Jan 10, 2024
Introduced
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
upper
1 primary · 4 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Tom Umberg
DDemocratic
Co
Diane Dixon
RRepublican
Co
Joe Patterson
RRepublican
Co
Josh Lowenthal
DDemocratic
Co
Liz Ortega
DDemocratic
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