Help us improve in just 2 minutes—share your thoughts in our reader survey.
Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee, California State Assembly
The Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee is a standing committee of the California State Assembly. It was created at the start of the 2015 legislative session.
Per the Assembly Rules, committees of the California State Assembly are assigned by the House Speaker. The Speaker has the power to appoint the chair and vice chair of each committee.[1] The Speaker is considered an ex officio member of all assembly committees of which he or she is not a regular member but does not have voting rights and is not counted for purposes of determining a quorum.[2] A majority of members of a committee constitutes a quorum.[3]
See rules: Standing Rules of the Assembly
Function
The duty of the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee is to investigate and study proposed bills relating to privacy, the protection of personal information (including digital information), the security of data, and information technology, as well as false advertising, charitable solicitations, weights and measures, and consumer protection generally.[4]
Membership
2025-2026 legislative session
|
Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee, 2025-2026 |
||
|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (11) | Republican members (4) | Third-party members(0) |
|
|
|
2023-2024 legislative session
|
Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee, 2023-2024 |
||
|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (7) | Republican members (3) | Third-party members(0) |
|
|
|
Vince Fong (R) left this committee on May 24, 2024. [Source]
2021-2022 legislative session
|
Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee, 2021-2022 |
||
|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (7) | Republican members (3) | Third-party members(0) |
|
|
|
Edwin Chau (D, Chair) left this committee on December 11, 2021. [Source]
2019-2020 legislative session
|
Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee, 2019-2020 |
||
|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (8) | Republican members (2) | Third-party members(0) |
|
|
|
Jay Obernolte (R) left this committee on December 07, 2020.
2017 legislative session
The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2017 legislative session.
| Privacy and Consumer Protection Members, 2017 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (7) | Republican members (3) | |||
| • Edwin Chau, Chair | • Kevin Kiley, Vice chair | |||
| • Marc Berman | • Catharine Baker | |||
| • Ian Charles Calderon | • Jay Obernolte | |||
| • Matt Dababneh | ||||
| • Jacqui Irwin | ||||
| • Ash Kalra | ||||
| • Eloise Reyes | ||||
2015 legislative session
The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2015 legislative session.
| Privacy and Consumer Protection Members, 2015 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (7) | Republican members (4) | |||
| • Mike Gatto, Chair | • Scott Wilk, Vice chair | |||
| • Ian Charles Calderon | • Catharine Baker | |||
| • Edwin Chau | • Ling-Ling Chang | |||
| • Jim Cooper (California) | • Brian Dahle | |||
| • Matt Dababneh | ||||
| • Rich Gordon | ||||
| • Evan Low | ||||
External links
- ↑ California Legislature—2021-2022 Regular Session, “Relative to the Standing Rules of the Assembly for the 2021–22 Regular Session,” accessed February 19, 2021 (Rule 26-A-6)
- ↑ California Legislature—2021-2022 Regular Session, “Relative to the Standing Rules of the Assembly for the 2021–22 Regular Session,” accessed February 19, 2021 (Rule 26-B)
- ↑ California Legislature—2021-2022 Regular Session, “Relative to the Standing Rules of the Assembly for the 2021–22 Regular Session,” accessed February 19, 2021 (Rule 57)
- ↑ California State Assembly, "Welcome to Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection," accessed February 23, 2021