Background
Alastair Mactaggart, the driver behind the current California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in 2018 (CCPA, published a new version of a consumer privacy act in September 2019). Since then, it has been modified and is being submitted to California county governments for inclusion on the California ballot for voting. In California Elections Code, Article 3, Section 9035 requires that initiative measures for statutes be presented to the Secretary of State with a minimum number of signatures, at least 5 percent of the total numbers of registered voters in the most recent gubernatorial election, in this case, no less than 623,212.
The Office of the Attorney General released the title and summary of the initiative back in December 2019 as one of the first steps in a ballot initiative. On May 4, 2020, the Californians for Consumer Privacy announced that it was submitting over 900,000 signatures for qualification of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) as a ballot initiative and is now submitting the petitions to all counties for inclusion on the ballots in November. If passed, the CPRA would take effect January 2023 with a one-year look back to January 2022. Some provisions, however, are presented for 2021, such as a new state privacy agency responsible for implementing and enforcing the CCPA.
Previously, this same group sponsored CCPA to be on the November 2018 ballot. However, the California Legislature passed its version of the CCPA in June 2018, which was signed into law – and has been amended twice since then. To date, the regulations to implement the CCPA have not been issued, yet enforcement is slated to begin July 1, 2020.
About the CPRA
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