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Bill	Check Sellers, Bill Payers and Proraters Law: out-of-state activities.	Existing law, the Check Sellers, Bill Payers and Proraters Law, prohibits a person from engaging in the business of receiving money or evidences thereof for the purpose of distributing the money or evidences thereof among creditors in payment or partial payment of the obligations of the debtor without first obtaining a license from the Commissioner of Business Oversight.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2524	California AB 2524 (20192020)	bill	Check Sellers Bill Payers and Proraters Law: out-of-state activities.	enacted	Wicks	8	26	6	2020-02-19	2020-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/e090f75d-75fd-4f44-a516-e4e85f1372a0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2524	dfe881b7174a7201e9d6e608ce9d763b965341c6ad38941c6d1a251e6e56e72c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2524 (20192020) — Check Sellers, Bill Payers and Proraters Law: out-of-state activities.

Existing law, the Check Sellers, Bill Payers and Proraters Law, prohibits a person from engaging in the business of receiving money or evidences thereof for the purpose of distributing the money or evidences thereof among creditors in payment or partial payment of the obligations of the debtor without first obtaining a license from the Commissioner of Business Oversight.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/12/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/02/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/15/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/25/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2524 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2524 Wicks Concurrence in Senate Amendments By REYES — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar AB2524 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 13–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 2524 Wicks Assembly Third Reading — 58–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wicks — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2020-03-12 Referred to Coms. on B. & F. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-05-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-05-13 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee
• 2020-05-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (May 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-06-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (June 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-06-04 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 16. Page 4819.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-07-01 Referred to Com. on B. & F.I. referral-committee
• 2020-07-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-07-09 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-07-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-07-30 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-08-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-17 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2020-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4379.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 63. Noes 0. Page 5354.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 159, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e090f75d-75fd-4f44-a516-e4e85f1372a0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).