Existing law, the California Consumer Financial Protection Law (CCFPL), requires the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, headed by the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation, to regulate consumer financial products or services under California consumer financial laws. The CCFPL makes it unlawful for a covered person or service provider, as defined, to engage in certain deceptive or abusive acts or practices with respect to consumer financial products or services. The CCFPL exempts from its provisions a person or employee of that person to the extent that person or employee is acting under the authority of certain licenses, certificates, or charters issued by the department, including licensed escrow agents and finance lenders.

This bill would provide that nothing in the above-described exemption shall be deemed to prevent the commissioner from using the authority provided by the CCFPL to enforce the above-described provision on deceptive or abusive acts or practices.