Bus. & Prof. Code, § 22605 · Chapter 22.6. Companion Chatbots
Bus. & Prof. Code, § 22605
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
A person who suffers injury in fact as a result of a violation of this chapter may bring a civil action to recover all of the following relief:
(a) Injunctive relief.
(b) Damages in an amount equal to the greater of actual damages or one thousand dollars ($1,000) per violation.
(c) Reasonable attorney’s fees and costs.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 677, Sec. 1. (SB 243) Effective January 1, 2026.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=22605.
- Text hash
- sha256 7014e1eea7f12a6811654dc780f813eae5bcf8e64f18c3da734341fb0c161756
- Composed by
- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.