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Bill	Senior insurance.	(1) Existing law makes it unlawful to engage in specified practices, unfair methods of competition, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in a transaction intended to result or that results in the sale or lease of goods or services, including making false or misleading statements concerning the existence of price reductions, or the home solicitation of a consumer who is a senior citizen where a loan is made encumbering the primary residence of that consumer for purposes of paying for home improvements. A consumer who suffers damages as a result of the use or employment of the prohibited acts or practices may bring an action to recover civil damages of at least $1,000, and, if the victim is a senior citizen and the trier of fact makes specified findings, including that the consumer has suffered substantial physical, emotional, or economic damage resulting from the defendant's conduct, to recover an additional amount of up to $5,000.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 1170	California SB 1170 (20112012)	bill	Senior insurance.	enacted	Leno	7	25	7	2012-02-22	2012-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/e0842ca9-a132-4de8-879f-6e2a549405a8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1170	3f82a01f7a727dc9286048ef1e19228ac92b3596fef9de9867fb341ec2ef3e4e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1170 (20112012) — Senior insurance.

(1) Existing law makes it unlawful to engage in specified practices, unfair methods of competition, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in a transaction intended to result or that results in the sale or lease of goods or services, including making false or misleading statements concerning the existence of price reductions, or the home solicitation of a consumer who is a senior citizen where a loan is made encumbering the primary residence of that consumer for purposes of paying for home improvements. A consumer who suffers damages as a result of the use or employment of the prohibited acts or practices may bring an action to recover civil damages of at least $1,000, and, if the victim is a senior citizen and the trier of fact makes specified findings, including that the consumer has suffered substantial physical, emotional, or economic damage resulting from the defendant's conduct, to recover an additional amount of up to $5,000.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/01/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB1170 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1170 Leno Senate Third Reading By COOK — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Leno — primary (person)
• Alquist — coauthor (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Chesbro — coauthor (person)
• Corbett — coauthor (person)
• Correa — coauthor (person)
• Gaines — coauthor (person)
• Huffman — coauthor (person)
• Lieu — coauthor (person)
• Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
• Price — coauthor (person)
• Strickland — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (person)
• Wyland — coauthor (person)
• Yamada — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-22 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2012-02-23 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2012-03-01 Referred to Coms. on INS. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-03-23 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2012-03-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3143.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-12 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-13 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3207.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-20 Set for hearing April 30.
• 2012-04-30 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3426.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-07 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2012-05-25 Referred to Coms. on INS. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-21 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6120.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-22 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2012-08-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2012-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 653, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e0842ca9-a132-4de8-879f-6e2a549405a8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).