SACRAMENTO, November 11, 2026 – Earlier this year, California passed a new law, AB 2030, that limits the sale of fat-loss or muscle-building supplements to minors. Children are at a developmentally vulnerable period of their lives, where products aimed at transforming their bodies can have far-ranging consequences on their health.
SACRAMENTO, November 5, 2026 – Last night, Meta, TikTok, and Google filed lawsuits against California to block the state from instituting an age limit on addictive features on social media.
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SACRAMENTO, September 30, 2026 – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s (Long Beach – D) Assembly Bill 2076, which would require an online vendor to verify age before a nitrous oxide purchase.
SACRAMENTO, September 28, 2026 – Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s (Long Beach – D) Assembly Bill 2030 that would ban the sale of diet pills and muscle building supplements for children under 18.
SACRAMENTO, September 28, 2026 – Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s (Long Beach – D) Assembly Bill 1803, which requires all California businesses with 5 or more employees to include anti-hate speech training as a mandatory component of their existing workplace harassment prevention training.
SACRAMENTO, September 28, 2026 – Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s (Long Beach – D) Assembly Bill 883, which requires CalPrivacy to create informational materials detailing how elected officials and judges can utilize the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) system to remove their information from data
SACRAMENTO, September 10, 2026 – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s (D – Long Beach) AB 2 into law, which sets historic penalties for negligent harm caused to children by social media platforms.
SACRAMENTO, September 10, 2026 – Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 1709 into law. Starting on January 1st, 2027, California will age gate addictive features on social media and establish an expert oversight body to advise on technology regulation.
SACRAMENTO, August 26, 2026 – In the wake of the landmark Meta Settlement, California’s Legislature is on the cusp of passing Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s (Long Beach - D) social media safety package (AB 1709 and AB 2) to extend protections further than those set in the Meta Trial and invest in first-in-the-nation digital safety infrastructure through an e-Safety Advisory Co
