Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee
Event Log
Buffy Wicks — Buffy Wicks is mentioned as being supportive and present, then referenced as the author of age-appropriate design legislation. The discussion notes that her bill would already be law if not for company lawsuits that blocked it.
Buffy Wicks — Marked present during roll call.
Buffy Wicks — Voted aye on the consent calendar.
Buffy Wicks — A member thanked the author, cited harms from social media, and moved the bill while asking to be added as a co-author.
Buffy Wicks — The speaker reflects that they have sat alongside Assembly Member Wicks for seven years and repeatedly heard her argue that there is a better solution. The segment then concludes with Wicks being recorded as voting aye in the roll call.
Buffy Wicks — Recorded as voting aye.
Buffy Wicks — Mentioned as the Assembly Member TechNet worked with on the prior bill; likely the intended author reference.
Buffy Wicks — Roll is called and her vote is recorded as aye.
Buffy Wicks — Assembly Member Wicks says she will support the bill but believes more work is needed on safety issues.
Buffy Wicks — Name called during roll call; no vote captured in this excerpt.
Buffy Wicks — Buffy Wicks was called during the roll call.
Buffy Wicks — Assembly Member Buffy Wicks is called on to speak and then states that she fully supports the bill, thanking the author for efforts to make online spaces safer for kids.
Buffy Wicks — Buffy Wicks is first recorded as voting aye. The chair then asks which of her bills should be heard next, and the committee proceeds to take up AB 1043 as Assembly Member Wicks’s bill.
Buffy Wicks — Referenced as continuing to push on the issue.
Buffy Wicks — Buffy Wicks is identified as the author of AB 1043, is recorded voting aye during the bill action, and is later thanked for her continued leadership on the issue.
Buffy Wicks — Buffy Wicks is identified as the author of AB 853, and she is recorded as voting aye on the measure.
Buffy Wicks — Referenced as the Assembly Member whose district includes the speaker's constituency.
Buffy Wicks — Buffy Wicks is addressed during discussion of the bill and responds that she shares some concerns raised by opposition, does not doubt the author's intent, but worries certain language could reinforce monopolistic behavior like Ticketmaster's. She says she has begun marking up the language herself and encourages continued committee involvement, with others praising her for working toward a solution and taking on the issue for consumers. The sequence then transitions into roll call, where her name is called and she votes aye.
Buffy Wicks — Called in the roll call vote on AB 45.
Buffy Wicks — Buffy Wicks was recorded as voting aye.
Buffy Wicks — Recorded as voting aye.
Buffy Wicks — Called during the vote and recorded as voting aye.
Buffy Wicks — Recorded as voting aye.
Buffy Wicks — Recorded as voting aye.
Buffy Wicks — Recorded as voting aye on AB 810.
Buffy Wicks — AB 583 is identified as her bill.
Buffy Wicks — AB 1043 is identified as her bill.
Buffy Wicks — Recorded as voting aye on AB 45.
Buffy Wicks — AB 1331 is misattributed in the transcript as 'Al-Hawari'; no safe correction is made here.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, acting as chair, opens the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee hearing, calls the meeting to order, and outlines the day’s agenda, including 14 bills and Assembly Bill 489 on the consent calendar. Shortly after, she is addressed procedurally as 'Madam Chair' during the same opening transition.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Rebecca Bauer-Kahan thanked the author for bringing forward the bill, reflected on the committee’s long effort to address social media harms, and spoke as a parent about the need to protect children. She expressed support for warning labels, made a motion to move the bill, and asked to be added as a co-author. The later references are part of the same committee proceeding, including roll call and the vote, with the chair noting continued commitment to addressing the issue.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Addressed directly while agreeing to strengthen the bill's educational and actionable components.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — AB 56 is identified as her bill; the motion is due pass to the Judiciary Committee.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Vote is called on AB 56 and the committee records her name in the roll call.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Mentioned as the author/sponsor of the bill.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Said the device is a tracking device, contains private information, and argued there could be an expectation of privacy because it is locked.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Recorded as voting aye.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Addressed as Chair in the witness's opening remarks.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Rebecca Bauer-Kahan is thanked in connection with the chair and staff’s work on the bill, and then her vote is recorded as aye during roll call.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Vote recorded as aye.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Rebecca Bauer-Kahan is involved in a brief procedural sequence during committee discussion: she asks a question about whether the requirement is already law, checks if there are any further questions, is called during the roll call, and notes that she will need to leave once the chair returns.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — The chair is called during the roll call vote.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Robert Singleton addresses Chair Bauer-Kahan.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Referred to as 'the Chair' who may want to answer the question.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Rebecca Bauer-Kahan is addressed as Madam Chair during the closing remarks and again at the start of the bill presentation, marking a continuous chair-related exchange in the meeting.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Recorded as voting aye.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — As chair, Rebecca Bauer-Kahan brings the matter back to the dais and begins questioning the author, with the discussion continuing directly into amendments and the committee’s suggested changes.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Rebecca Bauer-Kahan is referenced during committee proceedings as her name is called in roll call votes, she votes aye on AB 1349, she is credited as the author of AB 45, and AB 45 is then brought up for a committee vote with her listed first in the roll call.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — The witness thanks Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan for her leadership on the bill.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan — Identified as the author of AB 1018.