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Bill	Advertising: automatic renewal and continuous service offers: notice and online termination.	Existing law regulates automatic renewal offers and continuous service offers that businesses make to California consumers. Existing law makes it unlawful for a business that makes an automatic renewal offer or continuous service offer to a consumer in this state, among other things, to fail to present the automatic renewal or continuous service offer terms in a clear and conspicuous manner, to charge the consumer for an automatic renewal or continuous service without first obtaining the consumer's affirmative consent, and to fail to provide an acknowledgment that includes the automatic renewal or continuous service offer terms, cancellation policy, and information regarding how to cancel in a manner that is capable of being retained by the consumer, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 390	California AB 390 (20212022)	bill	Advertising: automatic renewal and continuous service offers: notice and online termination.	enacted	Berman	6	21	5	2021-02-02	2021-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/35e08ab7-42dc-4a57-abf6-42e8e81f9ee5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB390	7ef794989b9e67e9133af3bf47cc3b909f232440d237309df7f18d7ee6de504e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 390 (20212022) — Advertising: automatic renewal and continuous service offers: notice and online termination.

Existing law regulates automatic renewal offers and continuous service offers that businesses make to California consumers. Existing law makes it unlawful for a business that makes an automatic renewal offer or continuous service offer to a consumer in this state, among other things, to fail to present the automatic renewal or continuous service offer terms in a clear and conspicuous manner, to charge the consumer for an automatic renewal or continuous service without first obtaining the consumer's affirmative consent, and to fail to provide an acknowledgment that includes the automatic renewal or continuous service offer terms, cancellation policy, and information regarding how to cancel in a manner that is capable of being retained by the consumer, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/02/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/14/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/04/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB390 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/10/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 390 Berman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB390 Berman et al. By Hertzberg — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 390 Berman Assembly Third Reading — 72–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Berman — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Bennett — coauthor (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-02 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-03 From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
• 2021-02-12 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-08 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-04-12 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
• 2021-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-26 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-04-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 22). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 1280.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-05-12 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 22). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2359.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2878.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2021-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 450, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/35e08ab7-42dc-4a57-abf6-42e8e81f9ee5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).