CA AB 1166

in committee

Fair Debt Settlement Practices Act.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law, the Fair Debt Settlement Practices Act, prohibits a debt settlement provider from engaging in false, deceptive, or misleading acts or practices, as specified, when providing debt settlement services. Existing law requires a debt settlement provider to provide a consumer with certain disclosures along with an unsigned copy of the proposed written contract between the debt settlement provider and the consumer and prohibits certain unfair, abusive, or deceptive practices in connection with payment processor activities. Existing law authorizes a consumer to terminate a contract for debt settlement services at any time without a fee or penalty of any sort by notifying the debt settlement provider, at which time the debt settlement provider is required to, among other things, provide, within 3 business days, a detailed accounting of any amounts received or expected to be received by the debt settlement provider from the consumer's settlement account after the debt settlement provider received effective notice of request for cancellation. Existing law authorizes a consumer to bring a civil action for violation of these provisions. This bill would expand the protections for consumers described above to include commercial debtors, as defined, and make other, nonsubstantive and related changes.

Introduced: 2025-02-21
Status date: —
Latest action: 2025-08-29 — In committee: Held under submission.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

FairDebtSettlementPracticesAct

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2025-02-21
Introduced. To print.
introduction
2025-02-22
From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
2025-02-24
Read first time.
reading-1
2025-03-13
Referred to Com. on B.&F.
referral-committee
2025-05-06
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 5).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-07
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-05-15
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1560.)
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2025-05-15
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-05-28
Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I., JUD. and APPR.
referral-committee
2025-06-12
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-07-03
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 2).
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,referral-committee
2025-07-07
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-07-16
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-08-18
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-08-29
In committee: Held under submission.

Versions

02/21/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-21Compare
07/07/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-07-07Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass.
2025-05-05 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Fong: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Soria: yes
- Krell: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Chen: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
AB 1166 Valencia Assembly Third Reading
2025-05-15 · pass · 73-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Alvarez: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Bains: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Chen: yes
- Flora: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ta: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Addis: yes
- Krell: yes
- Solache: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Soria: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Papan: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ward: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Berman: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Davies: yes
- Haney: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: other
- Arambula: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Quirk-Silva: other
- Castillo: other
- Stefani: other
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2025-07-02 · pass · 5-2
Member-level votes (7)
- Hurtado: yes
- Limón: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Niello: no
- Strickland: no
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-15 · pass · 11-1
Member-level votes (13)
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Laird: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Stern: yes
- Allen: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Niello: no
- Valladares: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes

Related bills

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