republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/sb-233.md

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Bill	Debt buying.	(1) Existing state and federal law regulate the practice of debt collection. Existing state law prohibits a debt collector from engaging in specified conduct, including the use of threats or causing a telephone to ring repeatedly to annoy the person called. Existing law prohibits a debt collector from obtaining an affirmation from a debtor of a consumer debt that has been discharged in bankruptcy, without clearly and conspicuously disclosing to the debtor, in writing, the fact that the debtor is not legally obligated to make such affirmation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 233	California SB 233 (20132014)	bill	Debt buying.	enacted	Leno	7	25	6	2013-02-11	2013-07-11	openstates	ocd-bill/35801c07-6586-460d-b196-1caefe4f7c6e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB233	1084283d6ed0d5124d3dbb8483758308f966c98e608e986d6373d6149eb50269	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 233 (20132014) — Debt buying.

(1) Existing state and federal law regulate the practice of debt collection. Existing state law prohibits a debt collector from engaging in specified conduct, including the use of threats or causing a telephone to ring repeatedly to annoy the person called. Existing law prohibits a debt collector from obtaining an affirmation from a debtor of a consumer debt that has been discharged in bankruptcy, without clearly and conspicuously disclosing to the debtor, in writing, the fact that the debtor is not legally obligated to make such affirmation.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/15/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/11/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB233 (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/02/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 233 Leno Senate Third Reading By GORELL — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Banking and Finance. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Leno — primary (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Correa — author (person)
• Hueso — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-11 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. reading-1, introduction
• 2013-02-12 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 14.
• 2013-02-21 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2013-04-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-04-03 Re-referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-04-05 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2013-04-18 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 590.) (April 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-22 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-04-26 Set for hearing May 7.
• 2013-05-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 852.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-15 Read third time and amended. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-15 Ordered to second reading.
• 2013-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1041.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-06-10 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and B. & F. referral-committee
• 2013-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-06-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-07-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2248.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-07-01 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2013-07-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2013-07-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-07-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 64, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/35801c07-6586-460d-b196-1caefe4f7c6e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).