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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 861: Consumer affairs.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 861 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on March 13, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Consumer affairs. Primary sponsor: Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. Most recent recorded action (October 10, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 592, Statutes of 2025.

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Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

(1)Existing law establishes in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency the Department of Consumer Affairs, which is composed of various agencies that license and regulate various businesses and professions. Existing law requires certain agencies to disclose information on the status of its licensees on the internet, as specified. In this regard, existing law specifies the licensees on which the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau is required to disclose information, including, among others, cemetery brokers, salespersons, and managers.

This bill would also specify that the bureau is required to disclose information on licensed hydrolysis facilities and reduction facilities.

(2)Existing law requires designated agencies in the Department of Consumer Affairs to require applicants to furnish a full set of fingerprints to the agency for purposes of conducting criminal history record checks.

This bill would include the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners as one of those designated agencies.

(3)The Dental Practice Act establishes the Dental Board of California to license and regulate the practice of dentistry, and repeals the provision establishing the board on January 1, 2029. Chapter 483 of the Statutes of 2024 revised the membership of the board by, among other things, removing a requirement that the board include a registered dental hygienist, and, instead, requiring the inclusion of a 2nd member who is a registered dental assistant.

This bill would make conforming changes, including deleting obsolete references to a dental hygienist member of the board.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Committee on Business, Professions and Economic DevelopmentPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)Senate—

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 592, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 3060.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3438.) Ordered to the Senate.
  7. Joint Rule 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
  8. Ordered to third reading.
  9. Read third time and amended.
  10. Joint Rule 61(a)(13) suspended. (Ayes 60. Noes 20. Page 3128.)
  11. Ordered to third reading.
  12. Read third time and amended.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page