California Code, Financial Code - FIN § 300

(a) In this section:

(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.