BILL NUMBER: SB 769	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Mitchell

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 769, as introduced, Mitchell. Consumers.
   Existing law states it is the intent of the Legislature 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 this provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated 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.