CA AB 1166
in committeeFair Debt Settlement Practices Act.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did CA AB 1166 pass?
Not yet. CA AB 1166 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-08-29): In committee: Held under submission.
What is CA AB 1166 about?
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.
Who sponsors CA AB 1166?
Valencia is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1166.
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
- Latest action
- 2025-08-29 — In committee: Held under submission.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Valenciaauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2025-08-29
In committee: Held under submission.
2025-08-18
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
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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.
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2025-07-07
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2025-07-03
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 2).
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2025-06-12
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-05-28
Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I., JUD. and APPR.
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2025-05-15
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-15
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1560.)
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2025-05-07
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-06
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 5).
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2025-03-13
Referred to Com. on B.&F.
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2025-02-24
Read first time.
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2025-02-22
From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
2025-02-21
Introduced. To print.
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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
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