---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local agencies: airports: customer facility charges."
description: "Existing law authorizes airports to require rental car companies to collect a customer facility charge under specified circumstances for purposes that include financing, designing, and constructing airport vehicle rental facilities and common-use transportation systems. Existing law specifies that the authorization for an airport to impose a customer facility charge becomes inoperative when the bonds used for financing are paid. Existing law, if a bond or other form of indebtedness is not used for financing or if a bond or other form of indebtedness used for financing has been paid, authorizes the Oakland International Airport to require a customer facility charge for a period of up to 10 years from the imposition of the charge, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 218"
citation: "California AB 218 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local agencies: airports: customer facility charges."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bonta"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ea62808-76fa-4216-8716-b21ed92e00f1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB218"
source_hash: "e6bf75d5f9963e38926e05be03a3eb6f6f0154fa2ce99fb8bc880daab721639c"
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 AB 218 (20172018) — Local agencies: airports: customer facility charges.

Existing law authorizes airports to require rental car companies to collect a customer facility charge under specified circumstances for purposes that include financing, designing, and constructing airport vehicle rental facilities and common-use transportation systems. Existing law specifies that the authorization for an airport to impose a customer facility charge becomes inoperative when the bonds used for financing are paid. Existing law, if a bond or other form of indebtedness is not used for financing or if a bond or other form of indebtedness used for financing has been paid, authorizes the Oakland International Airport to require a customer facility charge for a period of up to 10 years from the imposition of the charge, as specified.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/25/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB218&version=20170AB21899INT)
2. **03/20/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB218&version=20170AB21898AMD)
3. **06/27/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB218&version=20170AB21897AMD)
4. **07/06/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB218&version=20170AB21896AMD)
5. **09/27/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB218&version=20170AB21894CHP)
6. **AB218** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB218)
7. **09/07/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB218&version=20170AB21895ENR)

## Sponsors

- Bonta — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-25** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-01-26** From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
- **2017-02-06** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 14). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-03-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 840.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-03-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-27** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-07-03** From Consent Calendar.
- **2017-07-03** Ordered to third reading.
- **2017-07-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-07-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2329.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-09-05** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2914.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2017-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 311, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ea62808-76fa-4216-8716-b21ed92e00f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).