Bill Text: CA SB1490 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 1490 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Food delivery platforms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 898, Statutes of 2024. [SB1490 Detail]

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1490

Introduced by Senator Durazo

February 16, 2024

An act to amend Section 301 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to consumers.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1490, as introduced, Durazo. Consumers.

Existing law, the Consumer Affairs Act, states that it is the intent of the Legislature and the purpose of the act to promote and protect the interests of the people as consumers, and that the government advances the interests of consumers by, among other things, protecting consumers from the sale of goods and services through the use of deceptive methods, acts, or practices that are inimical to the general welfare of consumers.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 301 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

301.

It is the intent of the Legislature and the purpose of this chapter to promote and protect the interests of the people as consumers. The Legislature finds that vigorous representation and protection of consumer interests are essential to the fair and efficient functioning of a free enterprise market economy. The Legislature declares that government advances the interests of consumers by facilitating the proper functioning of the free enterprise market economy through (a) educating and informing the consumer to insure rational consumer choice in the marketplace; (b) protecting the consumer from the sale of goods and services through the use of deceptive methods, acts, or practices ~~which~~ that are inimical to the general welfare of consumers; (c) fostering competition; and (d) promoting effective representation of consumers’ interests in all branches and levels of government.