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AB-2787 Unmanned aircraft systems: delivery services.(2019-2020)

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Date Published: 04/27/2020 09:00 PM
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Amended  IN  Assembly  May 04, 2020

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 2787


Introduced by Assembly Member Chau

February 20, 2020


An act relating to unmanned aircraft systems. An act to add Title 1.81.49 (commencing with Section 1798.99.90) to Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code, relating to privacy.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2787, as amended, Chau. Unmanned aircraft systems: delivery services.
Existing state law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected or sold by a business, as defined.
This bill would authorize an unmanned aircraft system, as defined, that is used by a business to deliver consumer products to a person in this state to be used by a business to collect, use, and retain audio, geolocation, and visual information only when reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the delivery purposes for which the information was collected or processed. Except as provided, the bill would require the business to destroy that information upon completion or realization of those purposes. The bill would define terms for its purposes.

Existing federal law, the Federal Aviation Administration Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, provides for the integration of civil unmanned aircraft systems, commonly known as drones, into the national airspace system.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation pertaining to unmanned aircraft system delivery services.

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Title 1.81.49 (commencing with Section 1798.99.90) is added to Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code, to read:

TITLE 1.81.49. Unmanned Aircraft Systems

1798.99.90.
 For purposes of this title:
(a) “Delivery purpose” means the optimization of the unmanned aircraft system’s commercial operations.
(b) “Unmanned aircraft system” has the same meaning as defined in Section 853.5 of the Government Code.

1798.99.91.
 (a) An unmanned aircraft system that is used by a business to deliver consumer products to a person in this state may be used by that business to collect, use, and retain audio, geolocation, and visual information, only when reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the delivery purposes for which the information was collected or processed.
(b) Except as required by federal law, the business may retain the information described in subdivision (a) only for the delivery purposes for which it was collected and shall destroy that information upon completion or realization of those purposes.

SECTION 1.

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation pertaining to unmanned aircraft system delivery services.