Bill Text: CA AB2007 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Youth programs: identifying information of youth.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed) 2026-08-13 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. [AB2007 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2007
| Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan (Coauthors: Assembly Members Macedo and Pellerin) |
February 17, 2026 |
An act to add Chapter 2.10 (commencing with Section 18985) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to youth programs.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2007, as amended, Bauer-Kahan.
Youth programs: identifying information of youth.
Existing law makes a person who knowingly uses another’s name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, in any manner, on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of, products, merchandise, goods, or services, without that person’s prior consent, or, in the case of a minor, the prior consent of the person’s parent or legal guardian, liable for damages, as specified, among other remedies, as prescribed. Existing law generally regulates organizations and businesses that provide athletic, instructional, or other services to minors by imposing disclosure, training, background check, and child abuse prevention requirements on those entities and their personnel.
This bill would prohibit an entity or
organization that operates a specified nonschool youth programs program from using certain identifying information of a youth, including their picture, video, audio recording, likeness, and attributed statements, for communications, marketing, educational, or training purposes unless the program obtains express written consent from the parent or guardian after providing specified notice, as provided. or other purpose that exposes that information to the public unless the entity or organization obtains the parent or guardian’s express written consent on a specified notice. The bill would prohibit the program
entity or organization from making participation contingent upon providing consent or selling that youth information. a youth’s enrollment or participation in the program contingent upon a parent or guardian consenting to the program’s use of the youth’s information for any communications, marketing, or other purpose that exposes that information to the public. The bill would authorize a parent or guardian to revoke consent at any time during the youth’s enrollment in the covered program and up to one year after the youth is no longer enrolled in the program, and would require a covered entity to remove that information from communications, marketing, educational, and training materials within 7 days of receiving a notice of consent revocation.
consent, as specified.
The
This bill would authorize a parent or guardian to bring a civil action against a program an entity or organization for noncompliance with these provisions and would provide for specified remedies, including, among others, specified civil penalties per youth who has had their
the youth’s information disclosed and injunctive or declaratory relief.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 2.10 (commencing with Section 18985) is added to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, to read:CHAPTER 2.10. Use of Youth Information by Youth Programs
18985.
(a) For purposes of this section:(1) “Covered entity” means an entity or organization that operates a covered program.
(1)
(2) (A) “Covered entity”
program”
means a program or activity
activity, including, but not limited to, a program related to expanded learning, visual or performing arts, athletics, recreation, or educational enrichment or a day or overnight camp, that requires a parent signature, consent form authorization, or an event in which a parent designates authority for an organization to act in loco parentis, that is offered primarily to youth outside of school hours, including periods when school is not in session,
and that is not operated by a public or private elementary or secondary school, that may include, but is not limited to, programs related to expanded learning, visual or performing arts, athletics, recreation, or educational enrichment. meets both of the following criteria:
(i) The program or activity requires a parent signature or consent form authorization, or the program or activity is an event in which a parent provides written authorization for an organization to act in loco parentis.
(ii) The program or activity is
offered primarily to youth outside of school hours, including periods when school is not in session, and is not operated by a public or private elementary or secondary school.
(B) A covered entity does not include a business that is hosting or participating in a covered entity’s covered program or activity for a field trip or other occasional activity, including, but not limited to, amusement or water parks, zoos, aquariums, restaurants, state or county fairs, and movie theaters.
(2)
(3) “Covered information” means a picture, video, audio recording, likeness, attributed statement, personal information, as that term is
defined in Section 1798.140 of the Civil Code, or any other identifying information.
(3)
(4) “Expanded learning” has the same meaning as that term is defined in subdivision (a) of Section 8482.1 of the Education Code.
(4)
(5) (A) “Marketing purposes” means promotions, newsletters, brochures, social media, or other public-facing materials that describe the programs
a covered program or solicit participation.
(B) “Marketing purposes” does not include materials shared with a parent or guardian of a youth participating in the program, provided that the materials cannot be accessed by the general public.
(5)
(6) “Public or private elementary or secondary school” means either of the following:
(A) An elementary or secondary school
operated by the governing board of a school district or county office of education, education or the governing body of a charter school.
(B) An elementary or secondary school that has filed an affidavit with the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Instruction and which that reports a total enrollment of six or more students.
(b) A covered entity shall not make a youth’s enrollment or participation in a covered program contingent upon a parent or guardian consenting to the covered program’s use of the youth’s covered information for any communications, marketing, or other purpose that exposes that information to the public.
(b)
(c) (1) A covered entity shall not use a youth’s covered information for a communications, marketing, educational, or training purpose unless the covered entity obtains the express written or electronic signature of the parent or guardian of the youth on a notice
or other purpose that exposes that information to the public unless the covered entity obtains the parent or guardian’s express written consent on a notice that complies with all of the following:
(A) The notice communicates the requested uses of the youth’s covered information clearly and meaningfully, including a detailed list, including, but not limited to, all websites, brochures, or other materials or media where the covered entity is requesting to use the youth’s covered information. description of any proposed use of the youth’s covered information, including a description of the types of materials or media in which the information may be used and a list of internet
websites on which the covered information may be published.
(B) The notice is contained in a single document or single internet website
separate page within an online form that is separate from enrollment forms, waivers of liability, and any other document.
(C) The notice includes, in clear and understandable language, that the parent or guardian is providing consent for use of the youth’s covered information for communications, marketing, educational, or training purposes and includes a detailed list of all types of communications, marketing, educational, or training purposes for which consent is sought. or other purpose that exposes that information to the public as communicated in the description required by subparagraph (A).
(D) The notice includes, in clear and understandable language, that the parent or guardian may revoke consent at any time and provides an electronic mail address for submitting revocation. clearly and conspicuously states that the youth’s enrollment or participation is not contingent upon consent.
(2)A covered entity shall not make enrollment or participation contingent upon a parent or guardian providing consent pursuant to this subdivision, and the notice shall clearly and conspicuously state that enrollment or participation is not contingent upon consent.
(E) The notice provides an electronic mail address at which the parent or guardian can contact the covered program relating to the scope of consent, revocation of consent, or other issues relating to a youth’s covered materials.
(3)
(2) A covered entity shall not sell covered information of a youth for any reason, regardless of whether the parent or guardian consented to that use pursuant to paragraph (1).
(4)
(3) (A) A parent or guardian may revoke consent through the electronic mail address provided pursuant to subparagraph (E) of paragraph (1) at any time during the youth’s enrollment in the covered program and up to one year after the youth is no longer enrolled in the program.
(B)A covered entity shall remove the youth’s covered information from communications, marketing, educational, and training materials within seven days of receiving a notice of consent revocation.
(C)
(B) This paragraph does not require a covered entity to remove covered information from communications, marketing, educational, or training materials that were published or printed prior to before receiving a notice revoking consent.
(c)
(d) (1) A parent or guardian may bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction against a covered entity for a violation of this section.
(2) A parent or guardian who prevails in a civil action pursuant to this subdivision may be awarded any of the following relief:
(A) Up to two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for the first offense and five thousand dollars ($5,000) for any subsequent offenses, or a lesser amount as determined by the court, per youth who has had their
the youth’s
covered information disclosed.
(B) Injunctive or declaratory relief.
(C) Reasonable attorney’s fees and costs.
(D) Any other relief the court deems appropriate.
(d)
(e) This section does not impair or impede any other rights, causes of action, claims, or defenses available under any other law, including, but not limited to, Section 3344 of the Civil Code. The remedies provided in this section are
cumulative with any other remedies available under any other law.
