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Measure SB 44
Authors Umberg  
Subject Brain-computer interfaces: neural data.
Relating To relating to personal information.
Title An act to add Section 1798.122 to the Civil Code, relating to personal information.
Last Action Dt 2025-04-08
State Amended Senate
Status In Committee Process
Active? Y
Vote Required Majority
Appropriation No
Fiscal Committee Yes
Local Program No
Substantive Changes None
Urgency No
Tax Levy No
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Actions
2025-05-23     May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
2025-05-16     Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-05     May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-04-25     Set for hearing May 5.
2025-04-23     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 833.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-08     Set for hearing April 22.
2025-04-08     From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
2025-03-27     Withdrawn from committee.
2025-03-27     Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
2025-03-24     From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
2025-03-12     Re-referred to Coms. on B. P. & E.D. and JUD.
2025-03-05     From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
2025-01-29     Referred to Com. on RLS.
2025-01-06     Read first time.
2024-12-06     From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
2024-12-05     Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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Amended Senate     2025-04-08
Amended Senate     2025-03-24
Amended Senate     2025-03-05
Introduced     2024-12-05
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Last Version Text Digest The Confidentiality of Medical Information Act governs the disclosure of medical information by an employer, a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor, as those terms are defined. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) authorizes a consumer to direct a business, as defined, that collects sensitive personal information about the consumer to limit its use of the consumer’s sensitive personal information, as specified, and defines “sensitive personal information” to include personal information that reveals a consumer’s neural data. The CCPA also authorizes a consumer to request that a business delete any personal information about the consumer which the business has collected from the consumer, as prescribed. The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA and establishes the California Privacy Protection Agency and vests the agency with full administrative power, authority, and jurisdiction to enforce the CCPA. This bill would require, under the CCPA, a covered business to use neural data only for the purpose for which the neural data was collected and would require a covered business to delete neural data when the purpose for which the neural data was collected is accomplished. The bill would define “covered business” to mean a person who makes available a brain-computer interface to a person in this state and would define “brain-computer interface” to mean a system that allows direct communication and control between a person’s brain and an external device. This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020.