---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unfair Practices Act."
description: "The Unfair Practices Act makes various practices unlawful and provides that any person who engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition is liable for a civil penalty. That act specifies who is authorized to bring an action to enforce it, including a city attorney of any city having a population in excess of 750,000. That act requires 1 /2 of the penalty collected to be paid to the treasurer of the city in which the judgment was entered and the other 1 /2 to the treasurer of the county in which the judgment was entered, if the action was brought by a city attorney or city prosecutor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 3020"
citation: "California AB 3020 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Unfair Practices Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gloria"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-21"
last_action: "2020-09-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a22c90c0-2694-4d5b-bb90-1003569217a3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3020"
source_hash: "357e5026f052ebdebb210ddf403bd9f21be9411bda91d1e635981af8e6c92880"
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 3020 (20192020) — Unfair Practices Act.

The Unfair Practices Act makes various practices unlawful and provides that any person who engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition is liable for a civil penalty. That act specifies who is authorized to bring an action to enforce it, including a city attorney of any city having a population in excess of 750,000. That act requires 1 /2 of the penalty collected to be paid to the treasurer of the city in which the judgment was entered and the other 1 /2 to the treasurer of the county in which the judgment was entered, if the action was brought by a city attorney or city prosecutor.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/21/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3020&version=20190AB302099INT)
2. **09/11/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3020&version=20190AB302097CHP)
3. **AB3020** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3020)
4. **08/25/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3020&version=20190AB302098ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB3020 Gloria et al. By Hueso — **29–11** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 3020 Gloria Assembly Third Reading — **57–17** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **7–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gloria — primary (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2020-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2020-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2020-04-24** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-07** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-05-27** Coauthors revised.
- **2020-05-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (May 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-05-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 17. Page 4682.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-23** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-31** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-08-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 11. Page 4289.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-24** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2020-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2020-09-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 75, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a22c90c0-2694-4d5b-bb90-1003569217a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).