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Bill	Providers of health and safety labor or services: identification.	Existing law specifies the authority of agents in dealing with 3rd persons. The Consumers Legal Remedies Act prohibits unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by a person in a transaction intended to result or which results in the sale or lease of goods to any consumer, as defined, and authorizes specified remedies for a consumer who suffers damages as a result of the use of these methods, acts, or practices.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 556	California SB 556 (20132014)	bill	Providers of health and safety labor or services: identification.	enacted	Padilla	13	46	7	2013-02-22	2014-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/921b3fa7-6593-48d2-819c-49d4382a1929	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB556	c0be886fd7bbf3af37803778a2ad75cc8a93eb540d1b22f6162347f2bc3f2e6e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 556 (20132014) — Providers of health and safety labor or services: identification.

Existing law specifies the authority of agents in dealing with 3rd persons. The Consumers Legal Remedies Act prohibits unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by a person in a transaction intended to result or which results in the sale or lease of goods to any consumer, as defined, and authorizes specified remedies for a consumer who suffers damages as a result of the use of these methods, acts, or practices.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/09/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/29/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/19/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/01/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/07/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/21/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/26/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/04/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/29/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
12. SB556 (committee substitute) — source
13. 09/03/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• From committee: That the Assembly Amendments be concurred in. — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 24–13 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 556 Padilla Senate Third Reading By BOCANEGRA — 43–24 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB556 Padilla Concurrence — 24–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Padilla — primary (person)
• Corbett — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2013-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
• 2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2013-03-11 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2013-04-09 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
• 2013-04-11 Re-referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-04-23 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2013-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2013-04-25 Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2013-04-26 Set for hearing May 7.
• 2013-05-03 Set for hearing May 8 in L. & I.R. pending receipt.
• 2013-05-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. & I.R. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 852.) (May 7). Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-08 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 882.) (May 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-09 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-29 Read third time and amended. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-29 Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. (Page 1147.)
• 2013-05-29 Ordered to third reading.
• 2013-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 13. Page 1197.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-06-17 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-06-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (June 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-07-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-26 Read third time and amended. (Page 2699.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-26 Ordered to third reading.
• 2013-09-04 Read third time and amended. (Page 2863.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-04 Ordered to third reading.
• 2013-09-11 Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Atkins.
• 2014-08-04 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member V. Manuel Pérez.
• 2014-08-05 From inactive file.
• 2014-08-05 Ordered to third reading.
• 2014-08-07 Read third time and amended. (Page 5914.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2014-08-21 Read third time and amended. (Page 6282.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-21 Ordered to third reading.
• 2014-08-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 43. Noes 24. Page 6427.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2014-08-26 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. referral-committee
• 2014-08-26 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4868.) Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-08-28 Set for hearing August 28.
• 2014-08-28 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 4959.) committee-passage
• 2014-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 24. Noes 11. Page 4969.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2014-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 832, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/921b3fa7-6593-48d2-819c-49d4382a1929. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).