How Is This Bill Enforced
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A person who suffers injury in fact as a result of a violation of this chapter may bring a civil action to recover all of the following relief:
(a) Injunctive relief.
(b) Damages in an amount equal to the greater of actual damages or one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) per violation.
(c) Reasonable attorney's fees and costs.
Section 1 of the bill amends Business and Professions Code § 22605 to increase the statutory damages floor from $1,000 to $1,500 per violation. The remainder of the remedies provision — injunctive relief, actual damages, and reasonable attorney's fees and costs — is unchanged. The private right of action continues to require injury in fact as a standing prerequisite.
This is the bill's only operative provision. It does not alter the substantive obligations imposed on operators of companion chatbot platforms by the rest of the chapter (§§ 22601–22604); it raises the minimum monetary exposure for violations of those existing obligations.