Major bills backed by California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) aimed at protecting children using social media overcame a key hurdle Thursday on their way to a floor vote.
The Assembly and Senate appropriations committees held hearings on bills that have significant fiscal cost to the state, voting swiftly and without debate to kill or advance them.
The measures that survived the process still face significant technology industry opposition and questions over whether they could survive legal challenges.
Bonta, who is mulling a run for governor, sponsored the two most-watched measures regarding social media as part of his agenda to ...
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