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 SB-259 Fair Online Pricing Act.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 09/09/2025 06:45 PM

SB259:v91#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 September 09, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 September 05, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 July 10, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 June 19, 2025

 Amended
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 Assembly
 June 13, 2025

 Amended
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 Senate
 April 24, 2025

 Amended
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 Senate
 April 08, 2025

 Amended
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 Senate
 March 24, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 259

Introduced by Senator Wahab
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Lowenthal)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Connolly, Garcia, Haney, and Kalra)

February 03, 2025

An act to add Chapter 40 (commencing with Section 22949.82) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to consumer protection.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 259, as amended, Wahab.
 Fair Online Pricing Act.

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 grants to a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected by a business, as defined, including the right to request that a business delete personal information about the consumer that the business has collected from the consumer and to direct a business that sells or shares personal information about the consumer to third parties not to sell or share the consumer’s personal information.

This bill, the Fair Online Pricing Act, would, subject to specified exceptions, prohibit a price offered to a consumer through the consumer’s online device, as defined, from being generated in whole, or in part, based on any of certain input data, including the presence or absence of any software on the online device.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 NO 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Fair Online Pricing Act.

SEC. 2.

 Chapter 40 (commencing with Section 22949.82) is added to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, to read:

 CHAPTER
 40. Device-Based Pricing

22949.82.

 (a) “Coupon” means any method by which a consumer receives a discount on the purchase of any item that is funded, produced, sponsored, promoted, or furnished, either directly or indirectly, by a business, including, but not limited to, a paper coupon, a digital coupon, or an instant redeemable coupon.

(b) “Discount” means any reduction from the regular or advertised price offered to consumers on a temporary or conditional basis.

(c) “Hardware state” means a condition or mode of existence of a system, component, or simulation, including, but not limited to, battery life, number of wireless connections
 detected, hardware performance characteristics, and age of the device, data that is erased when an online device is restarted or powered down, and data that is retained when an online device is restarted or powered down.

(d) “Online device” means a physical object that has built-in resources that allow it to communicate through the internet or a short-range wireless technology and react to interface conditions, including, but not limited to, a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a tablet, a smartphone, or other smart hardware.

22949.82.1.

 (a) A price offered to a consumer through the consumer’s online device shall not be generated in whole, or in part, based on any of the following input data:

(1) (A) The hardware or hardware state of the online device.

(B) This paragraph shall not prohibit the generation of a price offered to a consumer based on the hardware or
 hardware state of the online device for the following purposes:

(i) Repairs or maintenance of the online device.

(ii) Calculating a trade-in value of the online device.

(2) The presence or absence of any software on the online device.

(3) (A) Geolocation data of the online device, when used to set a price based on inferences about the consumer made from this data.

(B) Subparagraph (A) shall
 not prohibit the use of geolocation data o