{"id":83446,"date":"2026-05-30T15:52:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83446"},"modified":"2026-05-30T17:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T21:36:35","slug":"stop-killing-games-gains-momentum-after-bill-passes-california-state-assembly-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83446","title":{"rendered":"Stop Killing Games Gains Momentum After Bill Passes California State Assembly Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/how-stop-killing-games-ups-the-ante-in-the-fight-for-video-game-preservation\">Stop Killing Games<\/a> movement has reached yet another major milestone after a bill protecting games from being pulled offline passed a California State Assembly vote.<\/p>\n<p>As announced in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tw1UhbaqBwA\">a video<\/a> posted by California State Assembly Member Chris Ward on the Stop Killing Games YouTube channel, bill AB-1921, also known as the Protect Our Games Act, has officially passed with a vote of 43-16. A campaign volunteer shared the news in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/StopKillingGames\/comments\/1tqfrvm\/stop_killing_games_just_passed_a_floor_vote_in\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">a Reddit post<\/a>, confirming that <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1921\">it passed<\/a> with &#8220;strong Democratic support and two Republican yes votes,&#8221; with opposing votes <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StopKilingGames\/status\/2060177747196932485?s=20\">breaking down<\/a> with one Democrat and 15 Republican votes.<\/p>\n<p>It marks an important moment for Stop Killing Games, which has backed the bill as part of its ongoing fight for video game preservation.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"games-as-a-service-are-shutting-down-left-and-right\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s over in the state senate now, and we&#8217;re going to be able to debate that in committee in the month of June,&#8221; Ward said. &#8220;The idea came to be from a constituent in San Diego who is tired of seeing their game shut down after recent purchases. So, if you live in California, be sure to contact your state senator and tell them as a gamer or developer why you care and this matters to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stop Killing Games movement has reached yet another major milestone after a bill protecting games from being pulled offline passed a California State Assembly vote. As announced in a video posted by California State Assembly Member Chris Ward on the Stop Killing Games YouTube channel, bill AB-1921, also known as the Protect Our Games&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":83448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83450,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83446\/revisions\/83450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}