SB 435: California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: personal information: exemptions.

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants to a consumer various rights with respect to personal information that is collected by a business, including the right to delete personal information. The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA and establishes the California Privacy Protection Agency and vests the agency with full administrative power, authority, and jurisdiction to enforce the CCPA.

The CCPA excludes from the definition of “personal information” publicly available information. Existing law defines “publicly available” for these purposes to include 3 types of information. One type is information that a business has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public by the consumer or from widely distributed media.

This bill would revise that part of the definition of “publicly available” by removing the condition that the business have a reasonable basis to believe the information is lawfully made available.

The CCPA also includes in that definition of “publicly available” information made available by a person to whom the consumer has disclosed the information if the consumer has not restricted the information to a specific audience.

This bill would delete that part of the definition of “publicly available.”

This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. August 13, 2026August 13 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
2. August 5, 2026August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
3. June 24, 2026From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 6.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
4. June 16, 2026July 1 hearing postponed by committee.
5. June 9, 2026June 16 hearing postponed by committee.
6. June 9, 2026From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
7. July 17, 2025Coauthors revised.
8. July 16, 2025July 16 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 7. Noes 5.) Reconsideration granted.
9. July 9, 2025July 8 hearing postponed by committee.
10. June 27, 2025Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
11. June 23, 2025From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C.
12. June 17, 2025From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C.