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Bill	Rental vehicles: contracts: damage waivers.	Existing law governs contracts between vehicle rental companies and their customers and authorizes a rental company to sell a damage waiver for each full or partial 24-hour rental day. Existing law specifies the maximum rate of the damage waiver sold, as $9 or $15 per rental day, as determined by criteria that include the rental company designation of the vehicle based upon the manufacturer's suggested retail price and model year. For purposes of these provisions, existing law requires the manufacturer's suggested retail price to be adjusted annually to reflect changes from the previous year in the Consumer Price Index, as defined.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1981	California AB 1981 (20132014)	bill	Rental vehicles: contracts: damage waivers.	enacted	Brown	9	24	5	2014-02-19	2014-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/9029b8dc-b7e0-4d5a-bc65-f0fb2220576d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1981	8177c023e596779bdf457228dee454e417fa7c95fb209b653279daa94073ffef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1981 (20132014) — Rental vehicles: contracts: damage waivers.

Existing law governs contracts between vehicle rental companies and their customers and authorizes a rental company to sell a damage waiver for each full or partial 24-hour rental day. Existing law specifies the maximum rate of the damage waiver sold, as $9 or $15 per rental day, as determined by criteria that include the rental company designation of the vehicle based upon the manufacturer's suggested retail price and model year. For purposes of these provisions, existing law requires the manufacturer's suggested retail price to be adjusted annually to reflect changes from the previous year in the Consumer Price Index, as defined.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/13/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/15/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/01/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/20/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/18/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1981 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/03/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1981 Brown By Torres — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1981 BROWN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 71–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 1981 BROWN Assembly Third Reading — 64–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brown — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2014-03-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-04-29 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-05-12 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-13 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 3. Page 5098.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-05 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-06-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-07-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4852.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 21. Page 6571.)
• 2014-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 4. Page 6584.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2014-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 417, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9029b8dc-b7e0-4d5a-bc65-f0fb2220576d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).