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 03/17/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/17/26 - Introduced

 AB-2007 Youth programs: identifying information of youth.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/02/2026 09:00 PM

AB2007:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 July 02, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 15, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 17, 2026

 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:
 NOYES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

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, i