SB 346: Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator.

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to regulate the occupancy of a room or rooms, or other living space, in a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, or other lodging for a period of less than 30 days.

This bill would authorize a local agency, defined to mean a city, county, or city and county, to enact an ordinance to require a short-term rental facilitator, as defined, to report, in the form and manner prescribed by the local agency, the physical address, including 9-digit ZIP Code, of each short-term rental, as defined, during the reporting period. The bill would also authorize a local agency to request additional information, as provided, when the physical address is not sufficient for the local agency to identify a specific short-term rental. The bill would authorize the local agency to impose an administrative fine or penalty for failure to file the report, and would authorize the local agency to initiate an audit of a short-term rental facilitator, as described. The bill would require a short-term rental facilitator, in a jurisdiction that has adopted an ordinance, to include in the listing of a short-term rental any applicable local license number associated with the short-term rental and any transient occupancy tax certification issued by a local agency. The bill would state these provisions do not preempt a local agency from adopting an ordinance that regulates short-term rentals, short-term rental facilitators, or the payment and collection of transient occupancy taxes in a manner that differs from those described in the bill.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 4

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. October 13, 2025Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 751, Statutes of 2025.
2. October 13, 2025Approved by the Governor.
3. September 9, 2025Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
4. September 2, 2025Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2409.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
5. August 29, 2025In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
6. August 29, 2025Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 64. Noes 0. Page 2793.) Ordered to the Senate.
7. July 17, 2025Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
8. July 16, 2025From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 15).
9. July 7, 2025Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
10. July 3, 2025From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 2).
11. June 24, 2025From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
12. June 5, 2025Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and JUD.