Assembly Panel Declines to Weigh CCPA Tweaks Backed by Consumer Groups
A California Assembly panel punted a bill backed by consumer groups to tighten the California Consumer Privacy Act. Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D) withdrew AB-1760 before a Privacy Committee hearing Tuesday afternoon. Chairman Ed Chau (D) “rallied” committee members against the…
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only CCPA-amendment bill at the hearing supported by consumer groups, so now AB-1760 won’t be considered this year, Electronic Frontier Foundation Legislative Counsel Ernesto Falcon told us. The panel still planned to have heard other bills backed by industries and opposed by consumer groups, he said. AB-1760’s demise leaves SB-561 proposed by Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) as the “last and only bill” to improve CCPA, Falcon said. That bill, which cleared a key committee earlier this month (see 1904100051), could fare better than AB-1760 because Becerra and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Hannah-Beth Jackson (D) are driving it forward, Falcon said. Consumer Federation of America is disappointed the Assembly panel wouldn’t consider AB-1760, emailed Director-Consumer Protection and Privacy Susan Grant. “If more time is needed to build support for it, that’s understandable, but I worry that the forces against the bill will also have more time to try to build opposition.” CFA will focus on defeating other bills that would weaken CCPA, she said. California lawmakers introduced about 30 bills this year to amend the 2018 state privacy law. Chau and Wicks didn’t comment.