AB 883: Data brokers: accessible deletion mechanism: deletion of personal information of elected officials and judges.

Session Year: 2025-2026
House: Assembly
Latest Version Date: 2026-06-17

Current Status:

In Progress

(2026-07-01: From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.)

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Existing law establishes the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) to enforce various laws protecting the privacy of individuals. If a business knowingly collects and sells to third parties the personal information of a consumer with whom the business does not have a direct relationship, existing law requires the business to register with the CPPA as a data broker, except as specified. Existing law requires the CPPA to establish an accessible deletion mechanism that allows a consumer to request that every data broker delete any personal information related to that consumer held by the data broker or associated service provider or contractor, as prescribed. Existing law requires, beginning August 1, 2026, a data broker to access that deletion mechanism at least once every 45 days and, among other things, process all deletion requests and delete all personal information related to the consumers making the requests, as specified.

This bill would change the above-described 45-day period to a 30-day period and make conforming changes.

This bill would create an additional process for the deletion of personal information of state and local government officials and California judges held by data brokers. In this regard, the bill would require the Secretary of State, certain local government officials, and the Judicial Council to provide to the CPPA lists of certain personal information of all notify any state elected officials, all official, local elected officials, official, or all California judges, respectively, and would require elected officials and judges to be provided an opportunity to remove their information from those lists, as prescribed. The bill would require the lists to be kept confidential, as specified. judge, as applicable, that the person may submit a request to delete that persons personal information through the above-described accessible deletion mechanism, as prescribed. By imposing additional duties on local government officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the CPPA to upload the lists to the accessible deletion mechanism described above and would require data brokers to delete that personal information within 10 days.

This bill would authorize an elected official or judge who is on a list described above, judge, or the Attorney General, a county counsel, or a city attorney on behalf of that elected official or judge, to bring a civil action for a violation of the bill, against a databroker who violates certain personal information deletion requirements, as prescribed.

This bill would make its provisions relating to the notice and enforcement of requests for deletion of personal information of elected officials and judges operative on July 1, 2027.

Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.The California Constitution requires local agencies, for the purpose of ensuring public access to the meetings of public bodies and the writings of public officials and agencies, to comply with a statutory enactment that amends or enacts laws relating to public records or open meetings and contains findings demonstrating that the enactment furthers the constitutional requirements relating to this purpose.This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Discussed in Hearing