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CA SB764

Bill

Status

Passed

9/26/2024

Primary Sponsor

Steve Padilla

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Origin

Senate

2023-2024 Session

AI Summary

  • Requires vloggers (parents, guardians, or families) to set aside 65% of gross earnings in a trust account for minors under 18 whose likeness, name, or photograph comprises at least 30% of compensated video or image content.

  • Establishes trust account requirements including establishment within 60 business days at FDIC-insured or registered investment institutions, with written statements under penalty of perjury documenting account details.

  • Requires vloggers to maintain records including number of compensated vlogs, minutes of content featuring the minor, total compensation, and amounts deposited to trust accounts, made available to minors upon request.

  • Allows minors to enforce the law through court action and recover actual damages, punitive damages, and costs including attorney's fees if vloggers knowingly violate or should have known they violated these provisions.

  • Exempts contracts between minors and their parent or guardian if approved by a court, provided terms are at least as beneficial to the minor as compensation under this law.

Legislative Description

Minors: online platforms.

Last Action

Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 611, Statutes of 2024.

9/26/2024

Committee Referrals

Appropriations6/25/2024
Judiciary6/19/2024
Privacy and Consumer Protection5/13/2024
Appropriations1/11/2024
Judiciary3/29/2023
Rules3/23/2023
Business, Professions and Economic Development3/1/2023
Rules2/17/2023

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