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Bill	Debt collection.	Existing law requires a debt collector that receives a copy of a police report filed by the debtor alleging that the debtor is the victim of an identity theft crime and a written statement in which the debtor claims to be the victim of identity theft to cease collection activities until completion of a review. Existing law requires the debt collector to review and consider all of the information provided by the debtor and other available information and authorizes the debt collector to recommence debt collection activities only upon making a good faith determination that the information does not establish that the debtor is not responsible for the specific debt in question.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1723	California AB 1723 (20152016)	bill	Debt collection.	enacted	Dodd	8	25	6	2016-01-28	2016-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/e9f6922c-3d18-4b71-b1af-b65e22a2c2c0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1723	749b47b2b3f6706976666ba3d973745d03b13c22c779f31862d7fbb9383e9270	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1723 (20152016) — Debt collection.

Existing law requires a debt collector that receives a copy of a police report filed by the debtor alleging that the debtor is the victim of an identity theft crime and a written statement in which the debtor claims to be the victim of identity theft to cease collection activities until completion of a review. Existing law requires the debt collector to review and consider all of the information provided by the debtor and other available information and authorizes the debt collector to recommence debt collection activities only upon making a good faith determination that the information does not establish that the debtor is not responsible for the specific debt in question.

Version chain

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

1. 01/28/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/02/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/08/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/16/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1723 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/23/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1723 DODD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1723 DODD Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1723 Dodd By Jackson — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)
• Brough — coauthor (person)
• Chávez — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)
• Waldron — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-28 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-01-29 From printer. May be heard in committee February 28.
• 2016-02-25 Referred to Coms. on B. & F. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-03-28 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, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee
• 2016-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4590.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-05 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-05-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 From Consent Calendar.
• 2016-08-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4972.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6029.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 376, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e9f6922c-3d18-4b71-b1af-b65e22a2c2c0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).