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Starting next year, California businesses will be prohibited from using hidden fees to attract customers with seemingly low prices.
The rules surrounding “junk” fees — from cell phone to food delivery costs — will be stiffened beginning July 2024.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed Senate Bill 478 or the “Consumer Legal Remedies Act: advertisem*nts,” first introduced in February by senators Bill Dodd, D-Napa and Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley.
“California sent a clear message today: The days of bait-and-switch pricing practices are over,” Skinner wrote in a recent statement from the Office of the Attorney General.
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