>requires clear and conspicuous disclosures of bots ("automated online account[s] where all or substantially all of the actions or posts of that account are not the result of a person"), in the context of incentivizing a purchase or sale of goods or services in a commercial transaction or influencing a vote in an election
I suppose they are generalizing this away from just "paid actors". bots don't need to be commercially involved to be annoying.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
"An act to add Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 17940) to Part 3 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to bots."
The new one is "An act to amend Sections 17940 and 17941 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to bots." This one amends that one.