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type: "Bill"
title: "Consumer Legal Remedies Act"
description: "Existing law, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, provides that specified unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result or that result in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer are unlawful. Existing law includes the home solicitation of a consumer who is a senior citizen as an unfair method of competition and unfair or deceptive act or practices if a loan is made encumbering the primary residence of the consumer for purposes of paying for home improvements and the transaction is part of a pattern or practice in violation of specified provisions of federal law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 790"
citation: "California AB 790 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Consumer Legal Remedies Act"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk-Silva"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-02-16"
last_action: "2021-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d69d70d-460d-41cc-8040-ea10d7af0ca8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB790"
source_hash: "af6209d4191ead695086472cb335a900e1081d64baf6c15b796464a1cb709b77"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 790 (20212022) — Consumer Legal Remedies Act
Existing law, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, provides that specified unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result or that result in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer are unlawful. Existing law includes the home solicitation of a consumer who is a senior citizen as an unfair method of competition and unfair or deceptive act or practices if a loan is made encumbering the primary residence of the consumer for purposes of paying for home improvements and the transaction is part of a pattern or practice in violation of specified provisions of federal law.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/16/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB790&version=20210AB79099INT)
2. **03/22/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB790&version=20210AB79098AMD)
3. **04/26/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB790&version=20210AB79097AMD)
4. **10/06/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB790&version=20210AB79095CHP)
5. **AB790** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB790)
6. **09/08/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB790&version=20210AB79096ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **100** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent AB790 — **370** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **110** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **110** (pass) · lower
- AB 790 Quirk-Silva Consent Calendar Second Day — **740** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Quirk-Silva — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2021-03-18** Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** 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`
- **2021-03-23** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1366.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-19** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-05** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-31** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2021-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2392.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2021-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2021-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 589, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d69d70d-460d-41cc-8040-ea10d7af0ca8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).