Civ. Code, § 1798.503 · Title 1.81.9. Digital Age Assurance Act
Civ. Code, § 1798.503
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation, which shall be assessed and recovered only in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Attorney General.
(b) An operating system provider or a covered application store that makes a good faith effort to comply with this title, taking into consideration available technology and any reasonable technical limitations or outages, shall not be liable for an erroneous signal indicating a user’s age range or any conduct by a developer that receives a signal indicating a user’s age range.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 675, Sec. 1. (AB 1043) Effective January 1, 2026. Operative January 1, 2027, pursuant to Section 1798.505.
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