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Bill	Consumers Legal Remedies Act: advertisements.	The False Advertising Law makes it a crime for a person or a firm, corporation, or association, or any employee thereof, to engage in specified false or misleading advertising practices. The Unfair Competition Law makes various unfair competition practices unlawful, including any unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue, or misleading advertising.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 478	California SB 478 (20232024)	bill	Consumers Legal Remedies Act advertisements	enacted	Dodd	7	30	8	2023-02-14	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/3ae11245-cc80-4ba9-a660-35017e810b77	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB478	9ab0a1540f3a854ecb9fd2cbdac0e2f3e8429425f7285bb4eccb12a1e4b1a9e0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 478 (20232024) — Consumers Legal Remedies Act: advertisements.

The False Advertising Law makes it a crime for a person or a firm, corporation, or association, or any employee thereof, to engage in specified false or misleading advertising practices. The Unfair Competition Law makes various unfair competition practices unlawful, including any unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue, or misleading advertising.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/18/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/14/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/07/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB478 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB478 Dodd et al. Concurrence — 30–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · upper
• SB 478 Dodd Senate Third Reading By Bauer-Kahan — 60–14 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 8–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — 8–3 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB478 Dodd et al. — 31–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Blakespear — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — principal coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Min — coauthor (person)
• Padilla — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — author (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-03-21 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2023-03-30 April 11 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-03-30 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1. Page 893.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-01 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2023-05-08 May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1171.) (May 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 3. Page 1392.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-15 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-06-19 Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2023-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-13 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-08-14 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-07 Assembly Rule 69 suspended.
• 2023-09-07 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 60. Noes 14. Page 3139.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-12 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2616.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 400, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3ae11245-cc80-4ba9-a660-35017e810b77. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).