State Activity – Short Term Rental Facts

2025 Legislation

Summary: This law grants local governments the authority to mandate that short-term rental platforms share host and property data. Upon request by a local agency, platforms must provide information including property addresses, assessor parcel numbers, listing URLs, and local license or Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) certification numbers. This is designed to help cities enforce local zoning ordinances and collect unpaid taxes. (Status: Chaptered)
Official Link: SB 346

Summary: Aimed at eliminating “junk fees” and improving price transparency, this bill prohibits short-term rentals from advertising or displaying a nightly rate that does not include all mandatory charges (such as cleaning fees). Government-imposed taxes and fees are the only costs excluded from the advertised upfront price. (Status: Chaptered)
Official Link: AB 537

Summary: This legislation requires short-term rental hosting platforms to allow guests to cancel a reservation without penalty for a minimum of 24 hours after the booking is confirmed. This protection applies as long as the reservation was made at least 72 hours prior to the scheduled check-in. (Status: Chaptered)
Official Link: SB 644

Summary: This law gives local governments more financial leverage to penalize problem properties. It increases the maximum administrative fines a city or county can impose for violations of short-term rental ordinances that pose a threat to public health and safety. Fines can now be levied up to $1,500 for a first violation, $3,000 for a second, and $5,000 for a third violation within a single year. (Status: Chaptered)
Official Link: SB 60

Summary: While primarily a broader housing and development bill, SB 8 clarified tenant relocation protocols when units are demolished or redeveloped. It explicitly established that the requirement to provide relocation benefits and the right of first refusal to displaced occupants does not apply to guests of a short-term rental (defined as stays of fewer than 30 days). (Status: Chaptered)
Official Link: SB 8

Summary: This bill states HOAs cannot implement total rental caps lower than 25% of available units. However, it also protects an HOA’s right to prohibit short-term rentals (stays of 30 days or less) within the community. (Status: Chaptered)
Official Link: AB 3182

Summary: This bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county to elect to allow platforms, as defined, that elect to assume the responsibility of collecting and remitting transient occupancy taxes on behalf of operators, to collect and remit those taxes to that city, county, or city and county, as specified. For cities, counties, and cities and counties that notify the Controller of their election by April 30, 2017, and for platforms that notify the Controller of their election by March 1, 2017, this collection and remittance would begin on July 1, 2017. For platforms and cities, counties, or cities and counties that provide notifications to the Controller after those dates, the collection and remittance would begin at least 6 months after notification, as specified. The bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county to discontinue an election and would make this discontinuance effective at least 6 months after notification to the Controller. The bill would also authorize a platform to discontinue its election, entirely or in part, effective as specified. (Status: Dead)
Official Link: SB 133

Summary: Requires short term home sharing companies who operate via an internet hosting platform to provide a disclosure to homeowners or tenants listing the property about the need to review their insurance coverage to ensure they are covered in the event of injury or damage during the rental period. If the hosting platform provides primary insurance coverage for the rental period, it may provide an alternate disclosure that encourages the host to review insurance coverage. (Status: Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 113, Statutes of 2016.)
Official Link: SB 1092

Summary: Current law requires a hosting platform, as defined, to provide a specific notice to an occupant listing a residence for short-term rental on a hosting platform that states, among other things, that, if the occupant is a tenant, listing the room, home, condominium, or apartment may violate the lease or contract and could result in legal action by the landlord, including possible eviction. Existing law requires the notice to be in a particular font size and be provided immediately before the occupant lists each real property on the hosting platform’s Internet Web site. This bill would modify that font size requirement and would discontinue the requirement that the notice be provided immediately before the listing of each real property. The bill would require the hosting platform to additionally provide to an offeror, prior to the offeror’s listing of a residential unit for short-term rental on the hosting platform’s Internet Web site, a notice disclosing specified information regarding the availability or unavailability of insurance coverage provided by the hosting platform. (Status: Dead)
Official Link: SB 1102

Summary: Would authorize a city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance that would require a transient residential hosting platform, as defined, to report specified information quarterly to the city, county, or city and county, and to establish, by ordinance, a fine or penalty on a transient residential hosting platform for failure to provide the report. The bill would make the information in the report confidential and require that it not be disclosed. (Status: Dead)
Official Link: SB 593

Summary: Would require a hosting platform, as defined, to provide a specific notice to an occupant listing a residence for short-term rental on a hosting platform that states, among other things, that, if the occupant is a tenant, listing the room, home, condominium, or apartment may violate the lease or contract and could result in legal action by the landlord, including possible eviction. (Status: Chaptered)
Official Link: SB 761