California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, with Senator Bill Dodd and Senator Nancy Skinner, introduced Senate Bill 478 (SB 478), landmark legislation seeking to prohibit in California the practice of hiding mandatory fees. The use of hidden fees and junk fees is a deceptive advertising practice in which a seller uses an artificially low headline price to attract a customer before revealing additional charges later in the buying process. Sellers often hide these additional, mandatory charges by using small type, vague descriptions or misleading wording such as “service fees,” by bundling them with legitimate charges like taxes, or revealing them clearly only after the consumer has invested time in the transaction. The legislation — the first bill of its type across the state — would prohibit advertising a price for a good or service that does not include all required charges other than taxes and fees imposed by a government.
Resolves YES if such a ban is passed into law in 2023 (regardless of when it goes into effect).
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SB 4u8 signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsome yesterday.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/10/07/governor-newsom-issues-legislative-update-10-7-23/
@MCMillennium Wrong link?
But yeah, it was signed: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/newsom-signs-bill-banning-junk-fees-california/3336736/
@jack Whoops, I added some character to the link by accident. SB 478 is listed here in the list of bills that Newsom signed. https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/10/07/governor-newsom-issues-legislative-update-10-7-23/
The legislation has passed the legislature and is awaiting action from the Governor by October 14. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB478