Existing law, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, provides that specified unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result or that result in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer are unlawful. Existing law includes the home solicitation of a consumer who is a senior citizen as an unfair method of competition and unfair or deceptive act or practices if a loan is made encumbering the primary residence of the consumer for purposes of paying for home improvements and the transaction is part of a pattern or practice in violation of specified provisions of federal law.
California AB 790 (20212022) — Consumer Legal Remedies Act
Existing law, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, provides that specified unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result or that result in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer are unlawful. Existing law includes the home solicitation of a consumer who is a senior citizen as an unfair method of competition and unfair or deceptive act or practices if a loan is made encumbering the primary residence of the consumer for purposes of paying for home improvements and the transaction is part of a pattern or practice in violation of specified provisions of federal law.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
Special Consent AB790 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
AB 790 Quirk-Silva Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Quirk-Silva — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2021-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2021-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
2021-03-18 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. referral-committee
2021-03-22 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
2021-03-23 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
2021-04-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2021-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2021-05-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 4). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2021-05-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1366.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2021-05-19 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
2021-06-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-07-05 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-08-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2021-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2392.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-09-03 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2021-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2021-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2021-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 589, Statutes of 2021. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4d69d70d-460d-41cc-8040-ea10d7af0ca8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).