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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 576: Video streaming services: commercial advertisements.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 576 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 20, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Video streaming services: commercial advertisements. Primary sponsor: Thomas Umberg (D). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (October 6, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 336, Statutes of 2025.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

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

Existing law regulates various businesses to, among other things, preserve and regulate competition, prohibit unfair trade practices, and regulate advertising.

Existing federal law requires the Federal Communications Commission to develop regulations that require commercials to have the same average volume as the programs they accompany. The federal regulations apply to television broadcast stations, cable operators, and other multichannel video programming distributors.

This bill would prohibit, on and after July 1, 2026, a video streaming service, as defined, that serves consumers in the state from transmitting the audio of commercial advertisements louder than the video content the advertisements accompany, as specified. The bill would state that it does not create a private right of action.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Thomas UmbergPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate34
Roger NielloCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate6

“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. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 336, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2828.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 2928.) Ordered to the Senate.
  7. Ordered to third reading.
  8. Read third time and amended.
  9. Ordered to third reading.
  10. Read third time and amended.
  11. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  12. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 24).

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page