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CA AB723

Bill

Status

Passed

10/10/2025

Primary Sponsor

Gail Pellerin

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Real estate brokers, salespersons, or their agents must disclose when advertisements or promotional materials for property sales include digitally altered images, with a conspicuous statement adjacent to the image and a link/QR code to the original unaltered version

  • For online listings under the broker's control, the unaltered version of any digitally altered image must also be included or linked on the same posting

  • "Digitally altered image" includes photos modified with editing software or AI to add, remove, or change elements like furniture, fixtures, paint colors, landscaping, views, or neighboring properties

  • Standard photo adjustments such as lighting, cropping, color correction, exposure, and straightening are exempt from the disclosure requirements

  • Willful violations constitute a crime under existing Real Estate Law enforcement provisions

Legislative Description

Real estate: digitally altered images: disclosure.

Last Action

Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 497, Statutes of 2025.

10/10/2025

Committee Referrals

Appropriations7/16/2025
Judiciary7/7/2025
Business, Professions and Economic Development6/18/2025
Rules6/4/2025
Appropriations4/2/2025
Privacy and Consumer Protection3/3/2025

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