republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-1061.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Consumer debt: medical debt."
description: "Existing law, the Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act, defines and regulates consumer credit reports and consumer credit reporting agencies. The act prohibits a consumer credit reporting agency from making any consumer credit report containing specified items of information, including accounts placed for collection or charged to profit and loss that antedate the report by more than 7 years. Existing law, the Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act, defines and regulates investigative consumer reports and investigative consumer reporting agencies. The act prohibits an investigative consumer reporting agency from making or furnishing any investigative consumer report containing specified items of information, including accounts placed for collection or charged to profit and loss that antedate the report by more than 7 years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 1061"
citation: "California SB 1061 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Consumer debt", "medical debt"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Limón"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 37
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2024-02-08"
last_action: "2024-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd81a426-89ea-4b07-b4a1-16379c35e6c3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1061"
source_hash: "c57affe0fb6be63cbe589f566804bdf387481ebbe67037c34450b303a89fa26b"
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 SB 1061 (20232024) — Consumer debt: medical debt.

Existing law, the Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act, defines and regulates consumer credit reports and consumer credit reporting agencies. The act prohibits a consumer credit reporting agency from making any consumer credit report containing specified items of information, including accounts placed for collection or charged to profit and loss that antedate the report by more than 7 years. Existing law, the Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act, defines and regulates investigative consumer reports and investigative consumer reporting agencies. The act prohibits an investigative consumer reporting agency from making or furnishing any investigative consumer report containing specified items of information, including accounts placed for collection or charged to profit and loss that antedate the report by more than 7 years.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1061&version=20230SB106199INT)
2. **03/11/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1061&version=20230SB106198AMD)
3. **04/08/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1061&version=20230SB106197AMD)
4. **04/29/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1061&version=20230SB106196AMD)
5. **06/19/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1061&version=20230SB106195AMD)
6. **07/03/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1061&version=20230SB106194AMD)
7. **08/19/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1061&version=20230SB106193AMD)
8. **08/22/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1061&version=20230SB106192AMD)
9. **09/24/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1061&version=20230SB106190CHP)
10. **SB1061** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1061)
11. **08/30/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1061&version=20230SB106191ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **31–8** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — **8–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Banking and Finance] — **12–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **11–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Rules] — **9–2** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1061 Limón et al. Concurrence — **31–8** (pass) · upper
- SB 1061 Limón Senate Third Reading By Friedman — **58–9** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Limón — primary (person)
- Becker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-08** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-09** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
- **2024-02-21** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and B. & F.I. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** Set for hearing April 2.
- **2024-03-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 3447.) (April 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-11** Set for hearing April 24.
- **2024-04-25** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3755.) (April 24). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-30** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2024-05-06** May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2024-05-10** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2024-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3969.) (May 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 4097.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2024-06-03** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-06** June 11 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2024-06-18** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-19** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-02** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-07** August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 15). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-22** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-22** Ordered to third reading.
- **2024-08-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 9. Page 6552.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2024-08-28** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 5531.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 520, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd81a426-89ea-4b07-b4a1-16379c35e6c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).