The California Legislature has returned from its summer recess
and got right to work on the pending amendments to the California
Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The Legislature has 30 days from today
to send any amendments to the Governor's desk for
signature.
As of the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing yesterday, a
group of amendments were pulled from the agenda at the last minute
and appear to be heading directly to the Senate floor for a vote
without further changes. Once voted out, these are likely to be
crossing over to the Assembly for conference markup. The six
amendments are the following:
AB-25 carves out employee and certain business
information from the definition of "consumer" and has
been narrowed to include a notice requirement for employers. It
also sunsets on January 1, 2020, thus committing the Legislature
and interested parties to take up more comprehensive employee
privacy legislation in 2020.