California Assembly Bill AB1121 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 1121INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Calderon FEBRUARY 27, 2015 An act to amend Section 1798.80 of the Civil Code, relating to personal information. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1121, as introduced, Calderon. Personal information. Existing law requires a business to take all reasonable steps to destroy, or arrange for the destruction of, a customer's records within its custody or control containing personal information that are no longer to be retained by the business, as specified. Existing law defines business, records, and personal information, among other terms, for these purposes. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the definitions described above. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 1798.80 of the Civil Code is amended to read: 1798.80. The following definitions apply to this title: (a) "Business" means a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, or other group, however organized and whether or not organized to operate at a profit, including a financial institution organized, chartered, or holding a license or authorization certificate under the law of this state, any other state, the United States, or of  any other   another  country, or the parent or the subsidiary of a financial institution. The term includes an entity that disposes of records. (b) "Records" means  any  material, regardless of the physical form, on which information is recorded or preserved by any means, including in written or spoken words, graphically depicted, printed, or electromagnetically transmitted. "Records" does not include publicly available directories containing information an individual has voluntarily consented to have publicly disseminated or listed, such as name, address, or telephone number. (c) "Customer" means an individual who provides personal information to a business for the purpose of purchasing or leasing a product or obtaining a service from the business. (d) "Individual" means a natural person. (e) "Personal information" means  any  information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or  any  other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. "Personal information" does not include publicly available information that is lawfully made available to the general public from federal, state, or local government records.