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==== Proposed Legislation and Bills ====

* [~~https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1883~~ CA A 1883 — Workplace surveillance tools] — ~~ordered to third reading in the Senate~~ on August 17, 2026; would prohibit employers from using AI workplace-surveillance tools ~~capable of inferring workers'~~ emotional state or ~~collecting~~ neural data~~, with Labor Commissioner, public-prosecutor, and private enforcement mechanisms~~.<ref name="ca-ab1883-history-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1883 California Legislative Information, “AB 1883 Bill History,” ~~accessed~~ August 20, 2026]</ref><ref name="ca-ab1883-text-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/~~billTextClient~~.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1883 California Legislative Information, “AB 1883 Bill Text,” ~~amended August 13~~, 2026]</ref> ~~''See: [[News-August-17-2026#California AB 1883 advances to final Senate vote|August 17 update]].''~~

* [[News-August-30-2026#California AB 1883 clears Legislature|CA A 1883 — Workplace surveillance tools]] — received final legislative approval on August 30, 2026 and was sent to engrossing and enrolling; would prohibit employers from using AI workplace-surveillance tools to infer or predict workers’ emotional state or collect neural data.<ref name="ca-ab1883-history-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1883 California Legislative Information, “AB 1883 Bill History,” August 30, 2026]</ref><ref name="ca-ab1883-text-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1883 California Legislative Information, “AB 1883 Bill Text,” accessed September 2, 2026]</ref>

* CA A 1609 — Customer Service Chatbots; pending; Prohibits a large private business from representing that a customer service chatbot is a human. Requires the large private business to provide certain.... Topics: Private Sector Use.

* [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1651 CA A 1651 — State Bar of California: artificial intelligence] — enrolled and presented to Governor Gavin Newsom on August 10, 2026; requires disclosure of AI-generated content used in developing or administering State Bar examinations and in State Bar study materials, including content later revised or reviewed by a person; operative January 1, 2028 if enacted.<ref name="ca-ab1651-history-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1651 California Legislative Information, “AB 1651 Bill History,” accessed August 15, 2026]</ref><ref name="ca-ab1651-text-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1651 California Legislative Information, “AB 1651 Enrolled Bill Text,” August 5, 2026]</ref> ''See: [[News-August-10-2026#California sends State Bar AI-disclosure bill to governor|August 10 update]].''

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* CA S 1050 — False Advertising: Synthetic Digital Performers; pending; Makes it an unlawful advertising practice for a person to create and cause to be published in an advertising medium an advertisement that includes a syn.... Topics: Deepfake, Notification, Private Sector Use.

* CA S 1111 — Digital Replicas; pending; Provides that existing law creates a civil cause of action against any person who knowingly uses the name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness of.... Topics: Deepfake, Judicial Use.

* CA S 1119 — Companion ~~Chatbots~~: ~~Childrens Safety~~; ~~pending; Requires an operator of a companion chatbot to do various things with respect to~~ child safety and companion ~~chatbots, including annually performing and~~.... ~~Topics: Health Use~~, ~~Notification~~, ~~Personhood.~~

* [[News-August-31-2026#California SB 1119 clears Legislature|CA S 1119 — Companion chatbots: children’s safety]] — received final legislative approval on August 31, 2026 and was ordered engrossed and enrolled; would impose child-safety risk assessments, safeguards, audits, privacy limits, and enforcement duties on companion-chatbot operators.<ref name="ca-sb1119-history-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1119 California Legislative Information, “SB 1119 Bill History,” August 31, 2026]</ref>

* CA S 1142 — Digital Dignity Act; pending; Enacts the Digital Dignity Act. Provides that subject to specified liability a person who, by distributing content with actual knowledge that the conten.... Topics: Deepfake.

* CA S 1146 — Advertisement Claims: Health Related Consumer Products; pending; Requires, subject to specified exceptions, a person who creates or causes to be created an advertisement that includes the image, audio, or video of a d.... Topics: Deepfake, Health Use, Notification, Private Sector Use.

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* CA S 719 — Department of Technology: Inventory; pending; Provides that existing law, until January 1, 2029, requires the Department of Technology to annually submit to certain legislative committees a report r.... Topics: Government Use, Oversight/Governance.

* [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB813 CA S 813 — California AI Standards and Safety Commission] — advanced by Assembly Appropriations 11–3 on August 13, 2026, with amendments, and re-referred to the Rules Committee; would establish a commission to study and recommend AI safety standards and related state policy.<ref name="ca-sb813-history-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB813 California Legislative Information, “SB 813 Bill History,” accessed August 15, 2026]</ref> ''See: [[News-August-13-2026#California suspense vote advances AI safety commission and stalls copyright disclosure bill|August 13 update]].''

* CA S 867 — Toys: ~~Companion Chatbots~~; ~~pending; Prohibits~~, ~~until 1~~/1/~~2031, the manufacture, sale, exchange, possession with intent to sell or exchange, and exposition or offer for sale or exchange to~~.... ~~Topics: Private Sector Use.~~

* [[News-August-31-2026#California SB 867 clears Legislature|CA S 867 — Toys: companion chatbots]] — received final legislative approval on August 31, 2026 and was ordered engrossed and enrolled; would temporarily prohibit toys containing companion chatbots through January 1, 2031.<ref name="ca-sb867-history-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB867 California Legislative Information, “SB 867 Bill History,” August 31, 2026]</ref>

* CA S 903 — Mental Health Professionals: Artificial Intelligence; pending; Regulates the use of artificial intelligence by licensed professionals providing psychotherapy services. Prohibits an individual, corporation, or entity.... Topics: Health Use, Notification.

* CA S 916 — Civil Actions: Housing Development Projects; pending; Provides that existing law provides that in a civil action brought by a plaintiff to challenge a housing development project that meets or exceeds the r.... Topics: Deepfake, Private Sector Use.

* CA S 947 — Employment: ~~Automated Decision Systems~~; ~~pending; Requires an employer that primarily relied upon an ADS to make a disciplinary~~, termination, or deactivation ~~decision to provide the affected worker with~~.... ~~Topics: Notification~~, ~~Private Sector Use.~~

* [[News-August-31-2026#California SB 947 clears Legislature|CA S 947 — Employment: automated decision systems]] — received final legislative approval on August 31, 2026 and was ordered engrossed and enrolled; would bar employers from relying solely on automated decision systems for discipline, termination, or deactivation and require human corroboration when those systems are primarily relied upon.<ref name="ca-sb947-history-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB947 California Legislative Information, “SB 947 Bill History,” August 31, 2026]</ref>

* CA S 951 — Employment: Technological Displacement: Notice; pending; Requires an employer to provide a written technology hiring disruption notice to the Employment Development Department and the local workforce investmen.... Topics: Effect on Labor/Employment, Notification, Private Sector Use.

* CA S 430 — Local Agencies: Automated Decision Systems; failed; Imposes certain restrictions on the use of an automated decision system by a local agency to confer supportive services, permits, or licenses. Includes.... Topics: Government Use.

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 ==== Proposed Legislation and Bills ====
-* [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1883 CA A 1883 — Workplace surveillance tools] — ordered to third reading in the Senate on August 17, 2026; would prohibit employers from using AI workplace-surveillance tools capable of inferring workers' emotional state or collecting neural data, with Labor Commissioner, public-prosecutor, and private enforcement mechanisms.<ref name="ca-ab1883-history-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1883 California Legislative Information, “AB 1883 Bill History,” accessed August 20, 2026]</ref><ref name="ca-ab1883-text-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1883 California Legislative Information, “AB 1883 Bill Text,” amended August 13, 2026]</ref> ''See: [[News-August-17-2026#California AB 1883 advances to final Senate vote|August 17 update]].''
+* [[News-August-30-2026#California AB 1883 clears Legislature|CA A 1883 — Workplace surveillance tools]] — received final legislative approval on August 30, 2026 and was sent to engrossing and enrolling; would prohibit employers from using AI workplace-surveillance tools to infer or predict workers’ emotional state or collect neural data.<ref name="ca-ab1883-history-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1883 California Legislative Information, “AB 1883 Bill History,” August 30, 2026]</ref><ref name="ca-ab1883-text-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1883 California Legislative Information, “AB 1883 Bill Text,” accessed September 2, 2026]</ref>
 * CA A 1609 — Customer Service Chatbots; pending; Prohibits a large private business from representing that a customer service chatbot is a human. Requires the large private business to provide certain.... Topics: Private Sector Use.
 * [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1651 CA A 1651 — State Bar of California: artificial intelligence] — enrolled and presented to Governor Gavin Newsom on August 10, 2026; requires disclosure of AI-generated content used in developing or administering State Bar examinations and in State Bar study materials, including content later revised or reviewed by a person; operative January 1, 2028 if enacted.<ref name="ca-ab1651-history-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1651 California Legislative Information, “AB 1651 Bill History,” accessed August 15, 2026]</ref><ref name="ca-ab1651-text-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1651 California Legislative Information, “AB 1651 Enrolled Bill Text,” August 5, 2026]</ref> ''See: [[News-August-10-2026#California sends State Bar AI-disclosure bill to governor|August 10 update]].''
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 * CA S 1050 — False Advertising: Synthetic Digital Performers; pending; Makes it an unlawful advertising practice for a person to create and cause to be published in an advertising medium an advertisement that includes a syn.... Topics: Deepfake, Notification, Private Sector Use.
 * CA S 1111 — Digital Replicas; pending; Provides that existing law creates a civil cause of action against any person who knowingly uses the name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness of.... Topics: Deepfake, Judicial Use.
-* CA S 1119 — Companion Chatbots: Childrens Safety; pending; Requires an operator of a companion chatbot to do various things with respect to child safety and companion chatbots, including annually performing and.... Topics: Health Use, Notification, Personhood.
+* [[News-August-31-2026#California SB 1119 clears Legislature|CA S 1119 — Companion chatbots: children’s safety]] — received final legislative approval on August 31, 2026 and was ordered engrossed and enrolled; would impose child-safety risk assessments, safeguards, audits, privacy limits, and enforcement duties on companion-chatbot operators.<ref name="ca-sb1119-history-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1119 California Legislative Information, “SB 1119 Bill History,” August 31, 2026]</ref>
 * CA S 1142 — Digital Dignity Act; pending; Enacts the Digital Dignity Act. Provides that subject to specified liability a person who, by distributing content with actual knowledge that the conten.... Topics: Deepfake.
 * CA S 1146 — Advertisement Claims: Health Related Consumer Products; pending; Requires, subject to specified exceptions, a person who creates or causes to be created an advertisement that includes the image, audio, or video of a d.... Topics: Deepfake, Health Use, Notification, Private Sector Use.
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 * CA S 719 — Department of Technology: Inventory; pending; Provides that existing law, until January 1, 2029, requires the Department of Technology to annually submit to certain legislative committees a report r.... Topics: Government Use, Oversight/Governance.
 * [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB813 CA S 813 — California AI Standards and Safety Commission] — advanced by Assembly Appropriations 11–3 on August 13, 2026, with amendments, and re-referred to the Rules Committee; would establish a commission to study and recommend AI safety standards and related state policy.<ref name="ca-sb813-history-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB813 California Legislative Information, “SB 813 Bill History,” accessed August 15, 2026]</ref> ''See: [[News-August-13-2026#California suspense vote advances AI safety commission and stalls copyright disclosure bill|August 13 update]].''
-* CA S 867 — Toys: Companion Chatbots; pending; Prohibits, until 1/1/2031, the manufacture, sale, exchange, possession with intent to sell or exchange, and exposition or offer for sale or exchange to.... Topics: Private Sector Use.
+* [[News-August-31-2026#California SB 867 clears Legislature|CA S 867 — Toys: companion chatbots]] — received final legislative approval on August 31, 2026 and was ordered engrossed and enrolled; would temporarily prohibit toys containing companion chatbots through January 1, 2031.<ref name="ca-sb867-history-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB867 California Legislative Information, “SB 867 Bill History,” August 31, 2026]</ref>
 * CA S 903 — Mental Health Professionals: Artificial Intelligence; pending; Regulates the use of artificial intelligence by licensed professionals providing psychotherapy services. Prohibits an individual, corporation, or entity.... Topics: Health Use, Notification.
 * CA S 916 — Civil Actions: Housing Development Projects; pending; Provides that existing law provides that in a civil action brought by a plaintiff to challenge a housing development project that meets or exceeds the r.... Topics: Deepfake, Private Sector Use.
-* CA S 947 — Employment: Automated Decision Systems; pending; Requires an employer that primarily relied upon an ADS to make a disciplinary, termination, or deactivation decision to provide the affected worker with.... Topics: Notification, Private Sector Use.
+* [[News-August-31-2026#California SB 947 clears Legislature|CA S 947 — Employment: automated decision systems]] — received final legislative approval on August 31, 2026 and was ordered engrossed and enrolled; would bar employers from relying solely on automated decision systems for discipline, termination, or deactivation and require human corroboration when those systems are primarily relied upon.<ref name="ca-sb947-history-2026">[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB947 California Legislative Information, “SB 947 Bill History,” August 31, 2026]</ref>
 * CA S 951 — Employment: Technological Displacement: Notice; pending; Requires an employer to provide a written technology hiring disruption notice to the Employment Development Department and the local workforce investmen.... Topics: Effect on Labor/Employment, Notification, Private Sector Use.
 * CA S 430 — Local Agencies: Automated Decision Systems; failed; Imposes certain restrictions on the use of an automated decision system by a local agency to confer supportive services, permits, or licenses. Includes.... Topics: Government Use.