California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill
AB 1337: Information Practices Act of 1977.
Passed one chamber Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
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Plain-language summary
AB 1337 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Information Practices Act of 1977. Primary sponsor: Christopher Ward (D). Most recent recorded action (June 25, 2026): In committee: Set, final hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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Official summary
Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.
Existing law, the Information Practices Act of 1977, prescribes a set of requirements, prohibitions, and remedies applicable to agencies, as defined, with regard to their collection, storage, and disclosure of personal information, as defined. Existing law exempts from the provisions of the act counties, cities, any city and county, school districts, municipal corporations, districts, political subdivisions, and other local public agencies, as specified.
This bill would, beginning January 1, 2028, recast those provisions to, among other things, remove that exemption for local agencies, and would revise and expand the definition of “personal information.” The bill would make other technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. Because the bill would expand the duties of local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Existing law requires an agency to provide on or with any form used to collect personal information from individuals an initial notice that includes specified information, followed by a periodic notice of not more than one-year intervals, as provided.
This bill would make changes to that notice requirement, including requiring periodic notice at least once every three years.
Existing law requires an agency to establish rules of conduct for persons involved in the design, development, operation, disclosure, or maintenance of records containing personal information and instruct those persons with respect to specified rules relevant to the act.
This bill would provide that the above-described rules of conduct shall be subject to any limitations or conditions set forth in any applicable collective bargaining agreement, and would prohibit an agency from using records containing personal information for any purpose or purposes other than the purpose or purposes for which that personal information was collected, except as required or authorized by state or local law.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Ward | Primary sponsor | Democratic | Assembly | 78 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- In committee: Set, final hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P.
- In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- Re-referred to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P.
- Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
- Withdrawn from committee.
- In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
- Referred to Com. on JUD.
- In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
- Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 0. Page 1921.)