---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local agencies: airports: customer facility charges."
description: "(1) Existing law authorizes airports to require rental companies to collect a customer facility charge or an alternative 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, beginning January 1, 2024, provides that the authorization for an airport to impose a customer facility charge becomes inoperative when the bonds used for financing are paid, except as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 534"
citation: "California AB 534 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local agencies", "airports", "customer facility charges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCarty"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-08"
last_action: "2023-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e14d78f1-f6b3-4bab-ab0e-a54e15062507"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB534"
source_hash: "2bd058c25e7453e5aa7cb8e0e9c49644d943a58158db1f3f904c1a7e854a83bf"
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 534 (20232024) — Local agencies: airports: customer facility charges.

(1) Existing law authorizes airports to require rental companies to collect a customer facility charge or an alternative 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, beginning January 1, 2024, provides that the authorization for an airport to impose a customer facility charge becomes inoperative when the bonds used for financing are paid, except as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB534&version=20230AB53499INT)
2. **03/08/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB534&version=20230AB53498AMD)
3. **03/16/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB534&version=20230AB53497AMD)
4. **10/10/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB534&version=20230AB53495CHP)
5. **AB534** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB534)
6. **09/07/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB534&version=20230AB53496ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 534 McCarty Consent Calendar Second Day — **60–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB534 McCarty et al. By Ashby — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McCarty — primary (person)
- Bonta — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
- **2023-02-17** Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-09** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-22** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-23** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 1008.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-03-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2353.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-05** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2023-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 657, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e14d78f1-f6b3-4bab-ab0e-a54e15062507`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).