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type: "Bill"
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title: "Unfair Competition Law: enforcement powers: investigatory subpoena."
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description: "The Unfair Competition Law (UCL) establishes a statutory cause of action for unfair competition, including any unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue, or misleading advertising. Under this law, actions for relief are required to be prosecuted exclusively by the Attorney General, a district attorney, a county counsel authorized by agreement with the district attorney in actions involving violation of a county ordinance, a city attorney of a city having a population in excess of 750,000 or by a county counsel of any county within which a city has a population in excess of 750,000, or a city attorney in a city and county, or, with the consent of the district attorney, by a city prosecutor in a city having a full-time city prosecutor in the name of the people of the State of California, as specified, or by a person who has suffered injury in fact and has lost money or property as a result of the unfair competition."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20212022"
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identifier: "AB 2766"
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citation: "California AB 2766 (20212022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Unfair Competition Law: enforcement powers: investigatory subpoena."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2022-02-18"
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last_action: "2022-09-28"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77f9e174-5410-40cf-b063-d21400c339ff"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2766"
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source_hash: "fa807f6ede6ef68f24fa4c85df993db5664af6b9fb641de7170150b0bb2e9ec7"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 2766 (20212022) — Unfair Competition Law: enforcement powers: investigatory subpoena.
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The Unfair Competition Law (UCL) establishes a statutory cause of action for unfair competition, including any unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue, or misleading advertising. Under this law, actions for relief are required to be prosecuted exclusively by the Attorney General, a district attorney, a county counsel authorized by agreement with the district attorney in actions involving violation of a county ordinance, a city attorney of a city having a population in excess of 750,000 or by a county counsel of any county within which a city has a population in excess of 750,000, or a city attorney in a city and county, or, with the consent of the district attorney, by a city prosecutor in a city having a full-time city prosecutor in the name of the people of the State of California, as specified, or by a person who has suffered injury in fact and has lost money or property as a result of the unfair competition.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/18/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2766&version=20210AB276699INT)
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2. **06/21/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2766&version=20210AB276698AMD)
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3. **09/28/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2766&version=20210AB276696CHP)
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4. **AB2766** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2766)
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5. **08/29/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2766&version=20210AB276697ENR)
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## Votes
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- 3rd Reading AB2766 Maienschein By Hertzberg — **29–9** (pass) · upper
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- AB 2766 Maienschein Assembly Third Reading — **47–19** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. — **8–1** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended — **9–2** (pass) · upper
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- AB 2766 Maienschein Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **57–15** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Maienschein — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-02-18** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
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- **2022-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
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- **2022-03-17** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-04-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-04-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 19. Page 4816.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2022-06-01** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 14). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2022-06-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 5047.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2022-08-25** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
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- **2022-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 15.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2022-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2022-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 698, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77f9e174-5410-40cf-b063-d21400c339ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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