Bill Text: CA AB161 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Solid waste: paper waste: proofs of purchase.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-08-30 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB161 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB161-Amended.html
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June 27, 2019 |
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May 17, 2019 |
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May 07, 2019 |
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April 30, 2019 |
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April 02, 2019 |
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March 19, 2019 |
Assembly Bill | No. 161 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Ting (Principal coauthor: Senator Stern) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Chiu and Mark Stone) (Coauthor: Senator Wiener) |
January 07, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law prohibits a person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation that accepts credit cards for the transaction of business from requesting or requiring the cardholder to provide personal identification information, which is then recorded, as a condition to accepting the credit card as payment in full or in part for goods or services, subject to specified exceptions.
This bill would exempt from that
requirement a person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation that is a business, as would be defined pursuant to the above provisions, is requesting personal identification information that is necessary to provide the cardholder with a receipt in electronic form pursuant to the above provisions, and does not use the personal identification information for marketing purposes.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(f)Data from a company that provides mobile payment services shows that their sellers send over 10,000,000 digital receipts each month.
(g)
(a)Except as provided in subdivision (c), a person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation that accepts credit cards for the transaction of business shall not do any of the following:
(1)Request, or require as a condition to accepting the credit card as payment in full or in part for goods or services, the cardholder to write any personal identification information upon the credit card transaction form or otherwise.
(2)Request, or require as a condition to accepting the credit card as payment in full or in part for goods or services, the cardholder to provide personal identification information that the
person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation accepting the credit card writes, causes to be written, or otherwise records upon the credit card transaction form or otherwise.
(3)Utilize, in any credit card transaction, a credit card form that contains preprinted spaces specifically designated for filling in any personal identification information of the cardholder.
(b)For purposes of this section “personal identification information,” means information concerning the cardholder, other than information set forth on the credit card, and including, but not limited to, the cardholder’s address and telephone number.
(c)Subdivision (a) does not apply in the following instances:
(1)If the credit card is being used as a deposit to secure payment in the event of default, loss, damage, or other similar occurrence.
(2)Cash advance transactions.
(3)If any of the following applies:
(A)The person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation accepting the credit card is contractually obligated to provide personal identification information in order to complete the credit card transaction.
(B)The person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation accepting the credit card in a sales transaction at a retail motor fuel dispenser or retail motor fuel payment island automated
cashier uses the ZIP Code information solely for prevention of fraud, theft, or identity theft.
(C)The person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation accepting the credit card is obligated to collect and record the personal identification information by federal or state law or regulation.
(D)The person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation
is a business, as defined in Section 42359 of the Public Resources Code, is requesting personal identification information that is necessary to provide the cardholder with a receipt in electronic form pursuant to Section 42359.1 of the Public Resources Code, and does not use the personal identification information for marketing purposes.
(4)If personal identification information is required for a special purpose incidental but related to the individual credit card transaction, including, but not limited to, information relating to shipping, delivery, servicing, or installation of the purchased merchandise, or for special orders.
(d)This section does not prohibit any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation from requiring the cardholder, as a condition
to accepting the credit card as payment in full or in part for goods or services, to provide reasonable forms of positive identification, which may include a driver’s license or a California state identification card, or where one of these is not available, another form of photo identification, provided that none of the information contained thereon is written or recorded on the credit card transaction form or otherwise. If the cardholder pays for the transaction with a credit card number and does not make the credit card available upon request to verify the number, the cardholder’s driver’s license number or identification card number may be recorded on the credit card transaction form or otherwise.
(e)Any person who violates this section shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for the first
violation and one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each subsequent violation, to be assessed and collected in a civil action brought by the person paying with a credit card, by the Attorney General, or by the district attorney or city attorney of the county or city in which the violation occurred. However, a civil penalty shall not be assessed for a violation of this section if the defendant shows by a preponderance of the evidence that the violation was not intentional and resulted from a bona fide error made notwithstanding the defendant’s maintenance of procedures reasonably adopted to avoid that error. When collected, the civil penalty shall be payable, as appropriate, to the person paying with a credit card who brought the action, or to the general fund of whichever governmental entity brought the action to assess the civil penalty.
(f)The Attorney General, or any district attorney or city attorney
with jurisdiction, may bring an action in the superior court in the name of the people of the State of California to enjoin violation of subdivision (a) and, upon notice to the defendant of not less than five days, to temporarily restrain and enjoin the violation. If it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant has, in fact, violated subdivision (a), the court may issue an injunction restraining further violations, without requiring proof that any person has been damaged by the violation. In these proceedings, if the court finds that the defendant has violated subdivision (a), the court may direct the defendant to pay any or all costs incurred by the Attorney General, district attorney, or city attorney in seeking or obtaining injunctive relief pursuant to this subdivision.
(g)Actions for collection of civil
penalties under subdivision (e) and for injunctive relief under subdivision (f) may be consolidated.
(h)The changes made to this section by Chapter 458 of the Statutes of 1995 apply only to credit card transactions entered into on and after January 1, 1996. Nothing in those changes shall be construed to affect any civil action which was filed before January 1, 1996.
SEC. 3.SEC. 2.
Chapter 5.8 (commencing with Section 42359) is added to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, to read:CHAPTER 5.8. Proof of Purchase
42359.
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:(A)A business that provides proofs of purchase that meet the following requirements:
(i)The proof of purchase does not contain bisphenol A or bisphenol S.
(ii)The proof of purchase does not include printouts of items nonessential to the transaction, including, but not limited to, coupons or advertisements.
(B)
(C)
(c)“Electronic form” includes, but is not limited
to, a form sent through email or text message.
(d)
42359.1.
(a)(c)(1)On and after January 1, 2024, if a consumer opts to receive a proof of purchase pursuant to subdivision (a), the proof of purchase shall be provided in electronic form or paper form, at the consumer’s option, unless a prescribed form is otherwise required by state or federal law.
(2)Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a business is not required to provide an electronic proof of purchase if, due to limited internet
connectivity, a power outage, or other unexpected technical difficulties, the business is incapable of sending an electronic proof of purchase.
(d)
(e)(1)Nothing in this section shall be construed to alter a consumer privacy protection required pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (Title 1.81.5 (commencing with Section
1798.100) to Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code).
(2)Nothing in this section is intended to alter the consumer rights of individuals.