This article is part of our ongoing “California Defending your Practice” series. These are the bills that have recently been enacted in the state of California. These bills may impact the medical professional liability industry. ProAssurance is committed to our California customers, and we will continue to monitor important legislative updates that could impact your practice of medicine. You can click on the bill’s number to read the legislation.
Name: California Consumer Privacy Act of 2028: opt out right: mergers
Last Action: Chaptered by the Secretary of State of September 29, 2024
Summary: This legislation gives a consumer more rights in regard to the gathering and selling of personal information by a business that is merging with another business. The bill requires the acquiring business to comply with a consumer’s wish to opt out of selling or sharing personal information.
Name: California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: personal information
Last Action: Chaptered by the Secretary of State on September 28, 2024
Summary: This bill clarifies that the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 applies to personal information regardless of its format – including, but not limited to, physical formats, digital formats, and abstract digital formats.
Name: Consumer Privacy: sensitive personal information: neural data
Last Action: Chaptered by the Secretary of State on September 28, 2024
Summary: This addition to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 adds neural data to the definition of “sensitive personal information. This adds a right to limit the use of neural data to infer characteristic about the consumer. This data is defined as information generated from measuring the activity of a consumer’s central or peripheral nervous system. The bill is meant to allow consumers to limit businesses’ use of personal neural data for the purpose of inferring characteristics about those consumers.