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and likely won’t until a deadline of late 2027
The deadline in AB 1405 is not in late 2027. The bill requires California to establish the AI Auditor Registry by January 1, 2029.
Full reasoning
AB 1405’s enacted text sets the registry deadline at January 1, 2029, not “late 2027.” Legislative summaries of the chaptered bill say the Government Operations Agency must, no later than January 1, 2029, establish the AI Auditor Registry and related reporting mechanism.
This also does not line up with SB 813’s timing. SB 813 requires the Government Operations Agency, on or before January 1, 2028, to develop application requirements and criteria for independent verification organizations. So the article’s “late 2027” date matches neither bill’s operative deadline.
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- AB 1405: Artificial intelligence: auditors: registration. | Digital Democracy
This bill would require the Government Operations Agency to, no later than January 1, 2029, establish an AI Auditor Registry on the agency’s internet website allowing AI auditors to register with the agency...
- California-2025-AB1405-Enrolled
11549.82. (a) No later than January 1, 2029, the agency shall do all of the following: (1) Establish an AI Auditor Registry on the agency’s internet website allowing AI auditors to register with the agency.
- Bill Text: CA SB813 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Chaptered | LegiScan
This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2028, the Government Operations Agency to take certain actions related to the selection and regulation of certain entities, defined as “independent verification organizations.”
and also only cover reports to law enforcement, government officials, or internal channels.
That overstates the limitation. The cited laws also cover some disclosures outside those channels, including testimony to a public body and confidential disclosures to an attorney.
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The article’s channel list is too narrow for the two laws it cites.
- California Labor Code §1102.5 does not stop at law enforcement, government officials, or internal reporting. The Labor Commissioner’s description of §1102.5 says it also protects employees who provide information to, or testify before, any public body conducting an investigation, hearing, or inquiry.
- The Defend Trade Secrets Act likewise goes beyond the channels listed here. Its whistleblower-immunity provision protects confidential disclosure of a trade secret to an attorney, and it also protects disclosures made in a complaint or other document filed under seal.
So while these laws are still narrower than a broad right to disclose to any third-party safety organization, it is incorrect to say they only cover reports to law enforcement, government officials, or internal channels.
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- Laws that Prohibit Retaliation and Discrimination | California Department of Industrial Relations
Labor Code section 1102.5 prohibits retaliation ... for providing information to, or testifying before, any public body conducting an investigation, hearing, or inquiry...
- 18 U.S.C. § 1833 - Exceptions to prohibitions | GovInfo
Immunity ... for the disclosure of a trade secret ... in confidence to a Federal, State, or local government official ... or to an attorney ... or ... in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal.