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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Business practices: prepaid credit cards: refund methods."
+description: "Existing law requires a retail seller of goods to the public that has a policy of denying full cash or credit refunds for the exchange of merchandise for goods of equal value for at least 7 days following the purchase of the goods, to conspicuously display that store's refund and exchange policy."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20192020"
+identifier: "AB 1428"
+citation: "California AB 1428 (20192020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Business practices: prepaid credit cards: refund methods."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2019-02-22"
+last_action: "2019-07-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c40a0cd8-0226-4913-912f-2ba0707c1d75"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1428"
+source_hash: "e3f7ba30d4dafa9ed2e7ee1b2d9b920175e2a45907ee5d00c079a6a76b37d5e4"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 1428 (20192020) — Business practices: prepaid credit cards: refund methods.
+
+Existing law requires a retail seller of goods to the public that has a policy of denying full cash or credit refunds for the exchange of merchandise for goods of equal value for at least 7 days following the purchase of the goods, to conspicuously display that store's refund and exchange policy.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1428&version=20190AB142899INT)
+2. **05/24/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1428&version=20190AB142898AMD)
+3. **07/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1428&version=20190AB142896CHP)
+4. **AB1428** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1428)
+5. **07/09/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1428&version=20190AB142897ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 1428 Calderon Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 1428 Calderon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
+- Consent Calendar AB1428 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Calderon — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
+- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
+- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-14** Referred to Coms. on B. & F. and P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1587.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2019-05-22** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-06-19** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-20** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-07-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1876.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-07-01** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2019-07-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2565.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-07-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2019-07-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-07-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 130, Statutes of 2019.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c40a0cd8-0226-4913-912f-2ba0707c1d75`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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