The Assembly Banking and Finance Committee advanced SB 546 on June 22 after hearing testimony about how the measure would apply California consumer-protection and debt-collection rules to billing agents.
According to the committee hearing summary and transcript from the Assembly’s video archive, the bill was discussed as clarifying that billing agents remain covered by California consumer financial protection law, civil code billing requirements and unfair-business-practice rules. The record also shows the committee announced the measure had passed at the end of the hearing.
The available summary does not include the bill’s full text, author or a clean vote tally, and the transcript is partially garbled. Even so, the hearing record indicates SB 546 moved out of committee, making it the latest formal step in the legislative process.
If the bill continues through the Legislature, it could affect how billing agents and related service providers are regulated under existing consumer-finance and unfair-practice laws.
