CCPA Amendments – Where They Stand Today

A little more than 100 days prior to the effective date of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), six amendments (A.B. 25, A.B. 874, AB 1146, A.B. 1202, A.B. 1355 and A.B. 1564) to the act were approved by California lawmakers at the close of the legislative session, which ended on Friday, Sept. 13. The governor must sign or veto these bills by Oct. 13. Most notably, if they become law, the bills would delay implementation of most of the CCPA's data subject rights to human resources data and business-to-business transaction communications data for one year. A bill that would have clarified that certain data collection and use in connection with loyalty programs was permissible (A.B. 846) was pulled by the author, but may be brought back up in the next legislative session if the regulations implementing the act, a first draft of which is expected from the California Attorney General's (Cal AG) office in late September or early October, do not address the issue. The