republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-483.md

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Bill	Fixed term installment contracts: early termination fees.	Existing law makes it unlawful for any person doing business in California and advertising to consumers in California to make any false or misleading advertising claim. Existing 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	20252026	AB 483	California AB 483 (20252026)	bill	Fixedterminstallmentcontracts earlyterminationfees	enacted	Irwin	8	24	5	2025-02-10	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/44848543-533a-4ddd-aaa5-0fd6592d1573	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB483	705bb29473118a1825b6588f929f608de63fe31d93d30de3d0d2a7dd9836c9e7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 483 (20252026) — Fixed term installment contracts: early termination fees.

Existing law makes it unlawful for any person doing business in California and advertising to consumers in California to make any false or misleading advertising claim. Existing 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. 02/10/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/12/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/19/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/03/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB483 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 11–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 483 Irwin Assembly Third Reading — 47–12 (pass) · lower
• AB 483 Irwin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 9–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB483 Irwin By Laird — 39–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Irwin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2025-02-24 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-03-24 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
• 2025-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (April 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 12. Page 1034.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-04-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-07 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-06-12 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
• 2025-06-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (June 24). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 1. Page 2663.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3219.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 557, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44848543-533a-4ddd-aaa5-0fd6592d1573. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).