Personal information: privacy: breach.
Summary
Existing law requires a person or business conducting business in California and any agency, as defined, that owns or licenses computerized data that includes personal information, as defined, to disclose a breach of the security of the system in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, as specified. Existing law requires a person, business, or agency that is required to issue a security breach notification to meet specific requirements, including that the notification be written in plain language. This bill would additionally require the security breach notification to be titled "Notice of Data Breach" and to present the information under prescribed headings. The bill would prescribe a model security breach notification form, as specified. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1798.29 of the Civil Code proposed by SB 34 and AB 964, that would become operative if this bill and one or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is chaptered last. This bill also would incorporate additional changes to Section 1798.82 of the Civil Code proposed by SB 34 and AB 964, that would become operative if this bill and one or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2015
Committee Review
Sep 2015
Senate Passage
May 2015
Assembly Passage
Sep 2015
Signed into Law
Oct 2015
Introduced Feb 26, 2015
Signed Oct 6, 2015
Floor votes · Senate May 28, 2015 · Assembly Sep 3, 2015
How they voted
23–9
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 33
May 28, 2015
D
Democratic23
95% Yea
R
Republican10
90% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
30
Key actions
6
Committee
10
Amendments
1
Oct 6, 2015
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor.
legislature
Sep 4, 2015
Upper · Passed
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 2. Page 2501.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
upper
Sep 3, 2015
Assembly · Passed
Assembly Vote: pass (72-0)
assembly
Sep 3, 2015
Introduced
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
upper
Jul 15, 2015
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 15).
lower
Jul 8, 2015
Committee
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
lower
Jul 2, 2015
Committee
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
lower
Jun 11, 2015
Committee
Referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
lower
May 28, 2015
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (23-9-1)
senate
May 11, 2015
Upper · Passed
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 960.) (May 11).
upper
Apr 29, 2015
Committee
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 819.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
upper
Apr 9, 2015
Committee
Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
upper
Apr 6, 2015
Committee
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
upper
Mar 12, 2015
Committee
Referred to Com. on RLS.
upper
Feb 26, 2015
Introduced
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Hannah-Beth Jackson
DDemocratic
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