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Bill	Consumer warranties: service contracts: cancellation: disclosures.	Existing law, the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act, provides consumer warranty protection to buyers of consumer goods, including motor vehicles, home appliances, and home electronic products. The act requires a service contract, as defined, to include certain elements, including a clear description and identification of the covered product.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1221	California AB 1221 (20212022)	bill	Consumer warranties: service contracts: cancellation: disclosures.	enacted	Flora	9	31	9	2021-02-19	2021-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/71639758-e380-4bdc-bfa5-5477fd5ac4f9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1221	56aec72849cef57721c79e550f4e8e354bcda9e9ad6589149e5013d3194216a7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1221 (20212022) — Consumer warranties: service contracts: cancellation: disclosures.

Existing law, the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act, provides consumer warranty protection to buyers of consumer goods, including motor vehicles, home appliances, and home electronic products. The act requires a service contract, as defined, to include certain elements, including a clear description and identification of the covered product.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/04/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1221 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1221 Flora By Jones — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1221 Flora Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1221 Flora Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Flora — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-03-04 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-04-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 4). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-05-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-13 From Consent Calendar.
• 2021-05-13 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97. referral-committee
• 2021-05-19 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1656.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-16 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-01 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2494.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2997.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 452, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/71639758-e380-4bdc-bfa5-5477fd5ac4f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).