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Bill	Service contracts.	Existing law, the Electronic and Appliance Repair Dealer Registration Law, regulates service contracts, as defined, relating to maintenance or repair of, among other things, specified sets and appliances, and makes it unlawful for any person to act as a service contract administrator or a service contract seller without first registering with the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation. A violation of these provisions is deemed to be unlawfully transacting the business of insurance, and therefore subject to specified criminal penalties.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 480	California AB 480 (20132014)	bill	Service contracts.	enacted	Ian Calderon	6	22	7	2013-02-19	2013-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/5ddb4094-3875-473d-97f1-b023c6551197	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB480	f137e51987ff03cc6e3503de9aec1f0c557204071743eaf60b60d94d78576ade	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 480 (20132014) — Service contracts.

Existing law, the Electronic and Appliance Repair Dealer Registration Law, regulates service contracts, as defined, relating to maintenance or repair of, among other things, specified sets and appliances, and makes it unlawful for any person to act as a service contract administrator or a service contract seller without first registering with the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation. A violation of these provisions is deemed to be unlawfully transacting the business of insurance, and therefore subject to specified criminal penalties.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/25/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB480 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/12/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 480 CALDERON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 480 CALDERON Assembly Third Reading — 76–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB480 Ian Calderon By Padilla — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ian Calderon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2013-02-28 Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2013-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2013-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-05-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 1670.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-06 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2013-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2100.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-04 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 6 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-09-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 2909.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2013-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 421, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5ddb4094-3875-473d-97f1-b023c6551197. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).