SB-53 Gov Code 11546.8

Citation

California Legislature, Senate Bill No. 53 (Wiener), Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025, Section 3, adding Government Code § 11546.8. Approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 29, 2025. California Legislative Information, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB53. Wiki copy: raw/legislative/SB-53 Gov Code 11546.8.md. Read 2026-10-15.

They are lines 11-21, 31-33, 51-57 and 311-367 of a full transcription. [...] marks the cuts. The excerpt keeps all of § 11546.8, subdivisions (a) to (k).

Bottom line

• This is the statute.
• § 11546.8 sets the mission (b), the University of California (UC) placement duty (c) and the minimum parts of CalCompute (d).
• The Report is due on or before January 1, 2027. The consortium dissolves when the Report goes to the Legislature.

Background

Senate Bill (SB) 53 is the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act. Most of the bill regulates large developers of frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models. Section 3 adds § 11546.8 to the Government Code. That section creates the consortium and the Report. The Legislative Counsel’s Digest, paragraph (2), summarizes the section.

Key claims

Statute text, word for word:

• (a) The consortium and its task.

  (a) There is hereby established within the Government Operations Agency a consortium that shall develop, pursuant to this section, a framework for the creation of a public cloud computing cluster to be known as “CalCompute.”

• (b) The mission.

  (b) The consortium shall develop a framework for the creation of CalCompute that advances the development and deployment of artificial intelligence that is safe, ethical, equitable, and sustainable by doing, at a minimum, both of the following: (1) Fostering research and innovation that benefits the public. (2) Enabling equitable innovation by expanding access to computational resources.

• (c) UC placement.

  (c) The consortium shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that CalCompute is established within the University of California to the extent possible.

• (d) The minimum parts of CalCompute.

  (d) CalCompute shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (1) A fully owned and hosted cloud platform. (2) Necessary human expertise to operate and maintain the platform. (3) Necessary human expertise to support, train, and facilitate the use of CalCompute.

• (e) Labor standards.

  (e) The consortium shall operate in accordance with all relevant labor and workforce laws and standards.

• (f)(1) The Report and its date.

  (f) (1) On or before January 1, 2027, the Government Operations Agency shall submit, pursuant to Section 9795, a report from the consortium to the Legislature with the framework developed pursuant to subdivision (b) for the creation and operation of CalCompute.

• (f)(2) The seven elements.

  (A) A landscape analysis of California’s current public, private, and nonprofit cloud computing platform infrastructure. (B) An analysis of the cost to the state to build and maintain CalCompute and recommendations for potential funding sources. (C) Recommendations for the governance structure and ongoing operation of CalCompute. (D) Recommendations for the parameters for use of CalCompute, including, but not limited to, a process for determining which users and projects will be supported by CalCompute. (E) An analysis of the state’s technology workforce and recommendations for equitable pathways to strengthen the workforce, including the role of CalCompute. (F) A detailed description of any proposed partnerships, contracts, or licensing agreements with nongovernmental entities, including, but not limited to, technology-based companies, that demonstrates compliance with the requirements of subdivisions (c) and (d). (G) Recommendations regarding how the creation and ongoing management of CalCompute can prioritize the use of the current public sector workforce.

• (h) Pay. Members serve without pay and get reimbursement of necessary expenses.
• (i) Dissolution.

  (i) The consortium shall be dissolved upon submission of the report required by paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) to the Legislature.

• (j) Donations.

  (j) If CalCompute is established within the University of California, the University of California may receive private donations for the purposes of implementing CalCompute.

• Section 1 (a), findings.

  (a) California is leading the world in artificial intelligence innovation and research through companies large and small and through the state’s remarkable public and private universities.

• Section 1 (b), findings on benefits.

  (b) Artificial intelligence, including new advances in foundation models, has the potential to catalyze innovation and the rapid development of a wide range of benefits for Californians and the California economy, including advances in medicine, wildfire forecasting and prevention, and climate science, and to push the bounds of human creativity and capacity.

Evidence and method

This is law. It gives requirements, not evidence. The excerpt also keeps the bill header, the Legislative Counsel’s Digest paragraph (2) and Section 1 (a) and (b).

Limits

• The excerpt does not include Gov. Code § 9795, which (f)(1) uses for the method of submission.
• The statute does not define “fully owned and hosted”, “to the extent possible” or “current public sector workforce”.