House Committee approves bill forcing health clubs to stop automatic card deductions within 30 days of consumer notice

The House Committee on Corporations voted 9-0 to pass House Bill 5215, the Unfair Sales Practices Act, which would require health clubs to discontinue automatic deductions from a consumer’s account or credit card within 30 calendar days after receiving a notice to stop.

Representative Phillips introduced the bill, saying it "will provide that health clubs must discontinue automatic deductions from the consumer's account or credit card within 30 calendar days of receiving a notice to stop from the consumer." The committee then moved and seconded a motion for passage and took the roll call vote.

Committee leadership recorded the passage as unanimous. The clerk announced the motion passed "9 to 0." Committee members present and recorded during the roll call included vice chairs O'Brien and Caldwell and several representatives who answered in the affirmative during the roll call sequence.

The committee chair said the bill will be moved to the floor for consideration by the full House. The vote on the bill in committee was procedural and final passage in the House would require additional floor action and any subsequent steps specified by chamber rules.

No witness testimony or amendments to HB 5215 were recorded during the hearing excerpt provided. The committee later adopted a separate procedural motion to hold other bills for further study; that procedural motion was recorded separately and does not change the committee’s recorded passage of HB 5215.

The committee did not provide implementation detail, enforcement mechanisms, or an effective date in the hearing record available here. Those details would typically be included in bill text and subsequent committee reports or floor debate.