The California Legislature just finished the first year of its current two-year session. Privacy and data protection issues were front and center in Sacramento during the session, and the Legislature passed a number of measures including several proposed amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The Governor now has until Oct. 13, 2019 to sign the measures passed this session into law. The Legislature will reconvene on Jan. 6, 2020.

As many are now aware, the California Legislature passed the CCPA in a little over a week in order to avoid a related ballot measure. Lawmakers, industry advocates and privacy activists all understood that certain sections of the law may need to be amended later to address issues they were not able to work out during the brief initial drafting period. The Legislature adopted the first amendments to the CCPA in September 2018, just months after the law passed. The initial amendments left many critical issues unresolved.