California § 300 - In this section: (1)

§ 300. In this section: (1)

(a) In this section: (1) “Business and industrial development corporation” means a corporation licensed under Division 15 (commencing with Section 31000). (2) “Payment instrument” has the same meaning as set forth in Section 2003. (3) “Stored Value” has the same meaning as set forth in subdivision (x) of Section 2003. (b) There is in the state government, in the Business and Consumer Services Agency, a Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, which has charge of the execution of, among other laws, the laws of this state relating to any of the following: (1) banks or trust companies or the banking or trust business; (2) savings associations or the savings association business; (3) credit unions or the credit union business; (4) persons who engage in the business of receiving money for transmission or such business; (5) issuers of stored value or such business; (6) issuers of payment instruments or the payment instrument business; (7) business and industrial development corporations or the business and industrial development corporation business; (8) insurance premium finance agencies or the insurance premium finance business; (9) persons offering or making any contract constituting bucketing; (10) persons offering or selling off-exchange commodities; (11) deferred deposit originators; (12) finance lenders and brokers; (13) residential mortgage lenders and servicers; (14) capital access companies; (15) check sellers, bill payers, and proraters; (16) securities issuers, broker-dealers, agents, investment advisers, and investment adviser representatives; (17) mortgage loan originators employed or supervised by finance lenders or residential mortgage lenders; (18) escrow agents; (19) franchisors; (20) persons holding securities as custodians on behalf of securities owners; (21) persons offering or providing consumer financial products or services in this state; and (22) PACE program administrators. (c) The amendments made to this section by the act adding this subdivision shall become operative on July 1, 2026.