CaliforniaBrain-computer interfaces: neural data.
What it does
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.
More detail
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.
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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Feb 2Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.Latest
- 2025
- May 23May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
- May 16Set for hearing May 23.
- May 5May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- Vote recorded Placed on suspense file. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 25Set for hearing May 5.
- Apr 23From 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.Minor
- Apr 22
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 8From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.Major
- Apr 8Set for hearing April 22.
- Mar 27Re-referred to Com. on JUD.Minor
- Mar 27Withdrawn from committee.Major
- Mar 24From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.Major
- Mar 12Re-referred to Coms. on B. P. & E.D. and JUD.Minor
- Mar 5From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.Major
- Jan 29Referred to Com. on RLS.Minor
- Jan 6Read first time.Minor
- 2024
- Dec 6From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
- Dec 5Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.Introduced