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Bill	Small business: commercial financing transactions.	Existing law generally regulates the loaning of money, including the calculation of interest rates. Existing law, the California Financing Law (CFL) , prohibits a person from engaging in the business of a finance lender or broker without obtaining a license from the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation. The CFL generally regulates commercial loans made by licensees.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 666	California SB 666 (20232024)	bill	Small business commercial financing transactions	enacted	Min	8	28	8	2023-02-16	2023-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/742c72db-8bc2-4691-8aca-52d768ff0e70	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB666	3dae87a769940a1e404d9873222206f1855f1a604b26cadde16207cee5da68b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 666 (20232024) — Small business: commercial financing transactions.

Existing law generally regulates the loaning of money, including the calculation of interest rates. Existing law, the California Financing Law (CFL) , prohibits a person from engaging in the business of a finance lender or broker without obtaining a license from the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation. The CFL generally regulates commercial loans made by licensees.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/05/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/14/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/13/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB666 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 666 Min Senate Third Reading By Grayson — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB666 Min Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Rules] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Min — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
• 2023-03-01 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. referral-committee
• 2023-04-03 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2023-04-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 831.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-04-21 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2023-05-03 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 1012.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1053.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-11 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-05-18 Referred to Coms. on B. & F. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-06-05 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-14 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3204.) 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 39. Noes 0. Page 2681.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 881, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/742c72db-8bc2-4691-8aca-52d768ff0e70. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).