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SB 243 — Companion chatbots.

Congress · introduced 2025-10-13

Latest action: — Secretary of State

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · 126 — Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
  2. · 4 — From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2.
  3. · 144 — Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HEALTH.
  4. · 39 — From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  5. · 165 — April 1 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
  6. · 124 — Set for hearing April 8.
  7. · 39 — From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  8. · 951 — Set for hearing April 30 in HEALTH pending receipt.
  9. · 21 — From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 705.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
  10. · 39 — From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
  11. · 21 — From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 965.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  12. · 124 — Set for hearing May 12.
  13. · 343 — May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
  14. · 124 — Set for hearing May 23.
  15. · 32 — Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  16. · 45 — Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 5. Page 1442.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  17. · 56 — In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  18. · 144 — Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD.
  19. · 165 — June 24 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
  20. · 39 — From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
  21. · 21 — From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  22. · 21 — From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  23. · 969 — August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
  24. · 7 — From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (August 29).
  25. · 32 — Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  26. · 851 — Ordered to third reading.
  27. · 61 — Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 1. Page 3189.) Ordered to the Senate.
  28. · 76 — In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  29. · 77 — Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 3. Page 2880.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  30. · 86 — Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
  31. · 90 — Approved by the Governor.
  32. · 94 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 677, Statutes of 2025.

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Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Becker, Josh (D, state_upper CA-13)sponsor0—5
2Padilla, Stephen C. (D, state_upper CA-18)sponsor0—5
3Lowenthal, Josh (D, state_lower CA-69)cosponsor0—1
4Pellerin, Gail (D, state_lower CA-28)cosponsor0—1
5Rubio, Susan (D, state_upper CA-22)cosponsor0—1
6Stern, Henry I. (D, state_upper CA-27)cosponsor0—1
7Weber Pierson, M.D., Akilah (D, state_upper CA-39)cosponsor0—1

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

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