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Bill	Consumer credit reports: security freezes.	Existing state law defines and regulates consumer credit reports and permits a consumer to place a security freeze on his or her credit report by making a request in writing by certified mail to a consumer credit reporting agency. Existing law requires a consumer credit reporting agency to place the security freeze on the consumer's credit report within 3 business days after receiving the consumer's request. Under existing law, an agency may charge a fee of no more than $5 to a consumer 65 years of age or older for placing, lifting, or removing a security freeze.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2374	California AB 2374 (20112012)	bill	Consumer credit reports: security freezes.	enacted	Roger Hernández	7	22	6	2012-02-24	2012-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/7f314e37-e84c-4ab7-a2d7-aa32299b3b8e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2374	5bed2cbe5f68405295bcf1e8894ebfed74a2344665ca2dc76a30d747074ec01d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2374 (20112012) — Consumer credit reports: security freezes.

Existing state law defines and regulates consumer credit reports and permits a consumer to place a security freeze on his or her credit report by making a request in writing by certified mail to a consumer credit reporting agency. Existing law requires a consumer credit reporting agency to place the security freeze on the consumer's credit report within 3 business days after receiving the consumer's request. Under existing law, an agency may charge a fee of no more than $5 to a consumer 65 years of age or older for placing, lifting, or removing a security freeze.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/14/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2374 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 2374 HERNÁNDEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 54–25 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2374 Roger Hernández — 24–15 (pass) · upper
• AB 2374 HERNÁNDEZ Assembly Third Reading — 47–21 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Roger Hernández — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-29 Referred to Coms. on B. & F. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-03-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee
• 2012-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-10 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (May 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-14 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 21. Page 4990.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-06-18 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-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (July 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 15. Page 4717.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 6319.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:25 a.m.
• 2012-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 645, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7f314e37-e84c-4ab7-a2d7-aa32299b3b8e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).