S.B. 376 - UCL's public prosecutor provisions amended

Legal Pad reports that on June 28, 2007, Governor Schwarzenegger signed S.B. 376, which amends Business and Professions Code sections 17204 and 17206 to permit the City and County of San Francisco to continue to pursue public UCL enforcement actions even if its population falls below 750,000. Now, public UCL enforcement actions may be brought by:

the Attorney General or any district attorney or by any county counsel authorized by agreement with the district attorney in actions involving violation of a county ordinance, or any city attorney of a city having a population in excess of 750,000, or by a city attorney in any city and county and, with the consent of the district attorney, by a city prosecutor in any city having a full-time city prosecutor ....

Bus. & Prof. Code § 17204 (as amended). A Recorder article from February 2006 has more on a previous, but unsuccessful, effort to pass similar legislation. My February 2006 blog post on the subject is also of interest.