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Bill	Vehicle rental agreements.	Existing law governs contracts between vehicle rental companies and their customers. Existing law regulates an automobile renter's liability for loss due to theft, a rental company's loss of use, or damage or loss to a rental vehicle, a renter's credit card liability, the submission of insurance claims, damage waivers and damage waiver fees, and the notice to a renter regarding financial responsibility and optional damage waivers.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 621	California AB 621 (20112012)	bill	Vehicle rental agreements.	enacted	Charles Calderon	7	32	7	2011-02-16	2011-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/8eee427f-fdca-4ade-925c-f4e1c615ee12	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB621	ead9e9cc78b0e25fc2d8d7ba3c0d131eca6a36015910ff43636e4923f4a04ded	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 621 (20112012) — Vehicle rental agreements.

Existing law governs contracts between vehicle rental companies and their customers. Existing law regulates an automobile renter's liability for loss due to theft, a rental company's loss of use, or damage or loss to a rental vehicle, a renter's credit card liability, the submission of insurance claims, damage waivers and damage waiver fees, and the notice to a renter regarding financial responsibility and optional damage waivers.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/20/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/12/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/08/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/07/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB621 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/20/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 2nd Reading AB621 Charles Calderon By DeSaulnier — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 621 Charles Calderon Concurrence in Senate Amendments By CALDERON — 66–13 (pass) · lower
• AB 621 CALDERON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 64–13 (pass) · lower
• AB 621 CALDERON Assembly Third Reading — 47–25 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB621 Charles Calderon By Calderon — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charles Calderon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-04-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (April 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-04-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 25. Page 877.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-04-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-04-25 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-06-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-06-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-27 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-07-11 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-12 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2170.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 13. Page 2855.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-08 Withdrawn from Engrossing and Enrolling.
• 2011-09-08 Action rescinded whereby the Assembly concurred in Senate amendments and whereby the bill was ordered to enrollment. Ordered returned to Senate.
• 2011-09-08 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2011-09-08 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. reading-3, passage
• 2011-09-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-09-08 Pursuant to Joint Rule 33.1,
• 2011-09-08 Joint Rule 61(a)(13) suspended. (Page 2399.)
• 2011-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-09 Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. (Page 2446.)
• 2011-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2447.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2011-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 13. Page 3204.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 531, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8eee427f-fdca-4ade-925c-f4e1c615ee12. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).