Bills

AB 1609: Customer service support.

  • Session Year: 2025-2026
  • House: Assembly

Current Status:

In Progress

(2026-01-21: From printer. May be heard in committee February 20.)

Introduced

First Committee Review

First Chamber

Second Committee Review

Second Chamber

Enacted

Version:

Existing law prohibits a person from using a bot, as defined, to mislead another person about the bots artificial identity to incentivize the purchase or sale of goods or services, among other things. Existing law requires an operator of a companion chatbot, as defined, to provide a disclosure regarding the companion chatbots artificial identity if a reasonable person interacting with the companion chatbot would be misled to believe that the person is interacting with a human.

This bill would declare the Legislatures intent to enact legislation that would regulate telephonic and internet customer service support in specified ways.

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