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Bill	Automatic renewal and continuous service offers.	Existing law regulates automatic renewal offers and continuous service offers that businesses make to California consumers. Existing law defines "automatic renewal" for these purposes to mean a plan or arrangement in which a paid subscription or purchasing agreement is automatically renewed at the end of a definite term for a subsequent term. Existing law also defines "continuous service" to mean a plan or arrangement in which a subscription or purchasing agreement continues until the consumer cancels the service.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2863	California AB 2863 (20232024)	bill	Automatic renewal and continuous service offers	enacted	Schiavo	8	23	5	2024-02-15	2024-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/c4cae05f-0f91-4cd6-80c1-8bb795c33133	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2863	5fd9d123a4a79422822b4b703e8e07f07de7d33c6bbb7a5968e75d9ea539e9bd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2863 (20232024) — Automatic renewal and continuous service offers.

Existing law regulates automatic renewal offers and continuous service offers that businesses make to California consumers. Existing law defines "automatic renewal" for these purposes to mean a plan or arrangement in which a paid subscription or purchasing agreement is automatically renewed at the end of a definite term for a subsequent term. Existing law also defines "continuous service" to mean a plan or arrangement in which a subscription or purchasing agreement continues until the consumer cancels the service.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/17/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/27/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/24/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2863 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/31/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2863 Schiavo et al. By Umberg — 36–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2863 Schiavo Assembly Third Reading — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2863 Schiavo Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Schiavo — primary (person)
• Lowenthal — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2024-03-21 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 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
• 2024-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-05-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 30). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-17 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
• 2024-06-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 25). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-06-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 1.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-28 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2024-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 515, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c4cae05f-0f91-4cd6-80c1-8bb795c33133. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).