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type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle rental agreements."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 621"
citation: "California AB 621 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle rental agreements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Calderon"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2011-02-16"
last_action: "2011-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8eee427f-fdca-4ade-925c-f4e1c615ee12"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB621"
source_hash: "ead9e9cc78b0e25fc2d8d7ba3c0d131eca6a36015910ff43636e4923f4a04ded"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB621&version=20110AB62199INT)
2. **06/20/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB621&version=20110AB62198AMD)
3. **07/12/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB621&version=20110AB62197AMD)
4. **09/08/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB621&version=20110AB62196AMD)
5. **10/07/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB621&version=20110AB62194CHP)
6. **AB621** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB621)
7. **09/20/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB621&version=20110AB62195ENR)
## Votes
- 2nd Reading AB621 Charles Calderon By DeSaulnier — **400** (pass) · upper
- AB 621 Charles Calderon Concurrence in Senate Amendments By CALDERON — **6613** (pass) · lower
- AB 621 CALDERON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **6413** (pass) · lower
- AB 621 CALDERON Assembly Third Reading — **4725** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB621 Charles Calderon By Calderon — **370** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **73** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **50** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8eee427f-fdca-4ade-925c-f4e1c615ee12`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).