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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Self-service storage facilities: rental agreement disclosures."
+description: "Existing law, the California Self-Service Storage Facility Act, establishes procedures governing the operation of self-service storage facilities, including specifying remedies for facility owners when occupants are delinquent in paying rent or other charges."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "SB 709"
+citation: "California SB 709 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Self-servicestoragefacilities", "rentalagreementdisclosures"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Menjivar"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-21"
+last_action: "2025-10-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6405daf7-d1fa-4aac-9459-ad4c5358f568"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB709"
+source_hash: "c7a2c309b0ddc651166db6a687193bfacf1abb333bcb0b7bcd50a9451d8a696d"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California SB 709 (20252026) — Self-service storage facilities: rental agreement disclosures.
+
+Existing law, the California Self-Service Storage Facility Act, establishes procedures governing the operation of self-service storage facilities, including specifying remedies for facility owners when occupants are delinquent in paying rent or other charges.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/21/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB709&version=20250SB70999INT)
+2. **03/24/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB709&version=20250SB70998AMD)
+3. **05/08/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB709&version=20250SB70997AMD)
+4. **05/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB709&version=20250SB70996AMD)
+5. **06/16/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB709&version=20250SB70995AMD)
+6. **09/04/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB709&version=20250SB70994AMD)
+7. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB709&version=20250SB70992CHP)
+8. **SB709** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB709)
+9. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB709&version=20250SB70993ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 709 Menjivar Senate Third Reading By Schultz — **57–17** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. — **9–3** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+- Unfinished Business SB709 Menjivar et al. Concurrence — **31–6** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading SB709 Menjivar et al. — **30–6** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Menjivar — primary (person)
+- Garcia — coauthor (person)
+- Schultz — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-21** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
+- **2025-02-24** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
+- **2025-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-12** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-24** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-11** Set for hearing May 6.
+- **2025-05-07** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 1027.) (May 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-08** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-05-29** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-29** Ordered to second reading.
+- **2025-06-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-06-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 6. Page 1466.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-04** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-09** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-16** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (June 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-04** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-04** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2025-09-10** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 17. Page 3165.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-10** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2025-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2894.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
+- **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 353, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6405daf7-d1fa-4aac-9459-ad4c5358f568`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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