Bill Text: CA AB2796 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Unfair competition.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-28 - Re-referred to Com. on JUD. [AB2796 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB2796-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2796

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Introduced by Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia

February 18, 2022

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An act to amend Section 17203 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2796, as introduced, Eduardo Garcia. Unfair competition.

The Unfair Competition Law (UCL) makes various practices unlawful and provides that a person who engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition is liable for a civil penalty, as specified. Existing law also makes any person who engages in, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition subject to injunction in any court of competent jurisdiction. Existing law authorizes the court to make orders or judgments to prevent the use or employment by any person of any practice that constitutes unfair competition or to restore to any person in interest any money or property, real or personal, that may have been acquired by means of unfair competition.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 17203 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

17203.

Injunctive Relief—Court Orders

Any

17203.

 Any person who engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition may be enjoined in any court of competent jurisdiction. The court may make such orders or judgments, including the appointment of a receiver, as may be necessary to prevent the use or employment by any person of any practice which that constitutes unfair competition, as defined in this chapter, or as may be necessary to restore to any person in interest any money or property, real or personal, which that may have been acquired by means of such unfair competition. Any person may pursue representative claims or relief on behalf of others only if the claimant meets the standing requirements of Section 17204 and complies with Section 382 of the Code of Civil Procedure, but these limitations do not apply to claims brought under this chapter by the Attorney General, or any district attorney, county counsel, city attorney, or city prosecutor in this state.