SB 295 (Hurtado D) California Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act of 2025.

Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2025 
Last Amend: 6/27/2025
Status: 7/2/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (July 1).
Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
Location: 7/1/2025-A. P. & C.P.
Summary: Current law imposes various responsibilities on the Attorney General related to consumer
protection, including, among others, the supervision of charitable trusts and the enforcement of
antitrust laws. Current law, commonly known as the Cartwright Act, identifies certain acts that are
unlawful restraints of trade and unlawful trusts and prescribes provisions for its enforcement through
civil actions. This bill would enact the California Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act of 2025, to prohibit
a person from distributing or making recommendations based on the use of a pricing algorithm to 2 or
more competitors, as defined, under specified circumstances, if the person knows or should know that
the pricing algorithm processes competitor data, as defined. The bill would prohibit a person from using
the recommendation of a pricing algorithm that processes competitor data, as specified, if the person
knows or should know that the pricing algorithm uses or incorporates competitor data. The bill would
declare that these provisions do not apply to the distribution or use of a pricing algorithm if all of the
competitor data processed by the pricing algorithm was collected more than one year before the use
or distribution of the pricing algorithm.