Bill Text: CA SB896 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

---

Bill Title: False, misleading, deceptive, or unlawful advertising: goods or services: platforms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-17 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. [SB896 Detail]

Download: California-2019-SB896-Introduced.html

---

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 896

---

Introduced by Senator Pan

January 28, 2020

---

An act to amend Section 17500 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 896, as introduced, Pan. False advertising.

Existing law makes it a crime for a person, firm, corporation, or association, or any employee of a corporation or association, to engage in advertising practices conducted by specified means of dissemination or publication, if a statement is made or disseminated that is untrue or misleading, and which by the exercise of reasonable care should be known to be untrue or misleading.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Digest Key

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

---

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 17500 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

17500.

 It is unlawful for any a person, firm, corporation or association, or any an employee thereof with intent directly or indirectly to dispose of real or personal property or to perform services, professional or otherwise, or anything of any nature whatsoever or to induce the public to enter into any an obligation relating thereto, to make or disseminate or cause to be made or disseminated before the public in this state, or to make or disseminate or cause to be made or disseminated from this state before the public in any state, in any a newspaper or other publication, or any an advertising device, or by public outcry or proclamation, or in any other manner or means whatever, means, including over the Internet, any internet, a statement, concerning that real or personal property or those services, professional or otherwise, or concerning any circumstance or matter of fact connected with the proposed performance or disposition thereof, which that is untrue or misleading, and which that is known, or which that by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading, or for any a person, firm, or corporation to so make or disseminate or cause to be so made or disseminated any such statement as part of a plan or scheme with the intent not to sell that personal property or those services, professional or otherwise, so advertised at the price stated therein, or as so advertised. Any A violation of the provisions of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or by both that imprisonment and fine.