---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rental car companies: electronic surveillance technology."
description: "Existing law generally governs the transactions between a rental company, also referred to as a rental car company, and its customers. Existing law prohibits a rental company from using, accessing, or obtaining any information relating to the renter's use of the rental vehicle that was obtained using electronic surveillance technology, except under specified circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2741"
citation: "California AB 2741 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Rental car companies", "electronic surveillance technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Haney"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-15"
last_action: "2024-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77de7143-91db-4989-bea0-f808e1567ece"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2741"
source_hash: "3e9a35e05ae01caedc70a5d9b4463cf070d5f28c5630d2a0ba592d5f56f62d4a"
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 2741 (20232024) — Rental car companies: electronic surveillance technology.

Existing law generally governs the transactions between a rental company, also referred to as a rental car company, and its customers. Existing law prohibits a rental company from using, accessing, or obtaining any information relating to the renter's use of the rental vehicle that was obtained using electronic surveillance technology, except under specified circumstances.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2741&version=20230AB274199INT)
2. **04/01/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2741&version=20230AB274198AMD)
3. **04/24/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2741&version=20230AB274197AMD)
4. **05/02/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2741&version=20230AB274196AMD)
5. **08/05/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2741&version=20230AB274195AMD)
6. **09/29/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2741&version=20230AB274193CHP)
7. **AB2741** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2741)
8. **08/29/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2741&version=20230AB274194ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2741 Haney Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2741 Haney Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2741 Haney By Umberg — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Haney — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2024-03-04** Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-22** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2024-04-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** 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`
- **2024-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 30). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-05-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5308.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-08-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2024-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 970, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77de7143-91db-4989-bea0-f808e1567ece`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).