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type: "Bill"
title: "Unlawful business practices."
description: "(1) Existing law, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, makes unlawful certain unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result or which results in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer, including, among other things, advertising or promoting any event, presentation, seminar, workshop, or other public gathering regarding veterans' benefits or entitlements that does not include a specified statement. Existing law authorizes any consumer who suffers damages as a result of the use or employment by any person of a method, act, or practice declared to be unlawful, as described above, to bring an action against that person to recover or obtain damages, restitution, an order enjoining the methods, acts, or practice, or any other relief the court deems proper."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 386"
citation: "California SB 386 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Unlawful business practices."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2015-02-24"
last_action: "2015-09-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b82bd187-5e35-41e3-bec4-b302775edd94"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB386"
source_hash: "176f226c29ffbce7f325db8a34dbcc78ed62c271a8ca382111aa405392ef7486"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SB 386 (20152016) — Unlawful business practices.
(1) Existing law, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, makes unlawful certain unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result or which results in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer, including, among other things, advertising or promoting any event, presentation, seminar, workshop, or other public gathering regarding veterans' benefits or entitlements that does not include a specified statement. Existing law authorizes any consumer who suffers damages as a result of the use or employment by any person of a method, act, or practice declared to be unlawful, as described above, to bring an action against that person to recover or obtain damages, restitution, an order enjoining the methods, acts, or practice, or any other relief the court deems proper.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/24/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB386&version=20150SB38699INT)
2. **06/23/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB386&version=20150SB38698AMD)
3. **07/01/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB386&version=20150SB38697AMD)
4. **09/02/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB386&version=20150SB38695CHP)
5. **SB386** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB386)
6. **08/24/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB386&version=20150SB38696ENR)
## Votes
- SB 386 Allen Consent Calendar Second Day — **790** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **380** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **110** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent #6**380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Allen — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-24** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2015-02-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
- **2015-03-05** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-01** Set for hearing May 12.
- **2015-05-13** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 983.) (May 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1071.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-04** Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-23** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-08** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-09** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2431.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-16** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2015-08-19** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2015-08-20** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2015-09-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 246, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b82bd187-5e35-41e3-bec4-b302775edd94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).