California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2086: Pest control licenses: personal information: confidentiality.
Status: Chaptered, September 18, 2026
What the bill says
An act to add Section 11457 to the Food and Agricultural Code, and to amend Section 7930.180 of the Government Code, relating to pest control. pest control Pest control licenses: personal information: confidentiality. Existing law, added by the Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1991, creates the Department of Pesticide Regulation, which is administered by the Director of Pesticide Regulation. Existing law authorizes the director to, among other things, adopt regulations for the issuance and renewal of licenses and certificates for pest control operations…
From the chaptered text, September 18, 2026:
An act to add Section 11457 to the Food and Agricultural Code, and to amend Section 7930.180 of the Government Code, relating to pest control. pest control Pest control licenses: personal information: confidentiality. Existing law, added by the Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1991, creates the Department of Pesticide Regulation, which is administered by the Director of Pesticide Regulation. Existing law authorizes the director to, among other things, adopt regulations for the issuance and renewal of licenses and certificates for pest control operations. The California Public Records Act requires a public agency, defined to mean a state or local agency, to make its public records available for public inspection and to make copies available upon request and payment of a fee, unless the public records are exempt from disclosure. This bill would, in order to protect the privacy of individual applicants, licensees, and certificate holders, prohibit personal information, as defined, collected pursuant to these provisions from being considered a public record, as specified, and would exempt that personal information from the California Public Records Act, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to disclose an individual applicant, licensee, or certificate holder’s address of record, unless the individual applicant, licensee, or certificate holder has designated the address of record as personal information. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute …