republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-359.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle rental agreements: customer facility charge."
description: "Existing law governs contracts between rental car companies and their customers. Existing law authorizes a company that rents passenger vehicles to the public to collect a customer facility charge, which means a fee that is required by an airport to be collected to finance, design, and construct airport car rental facilities, transportation systems, and terminal modifications, if specified circumstances apply. Existing law requires the aggregate amount collected from customer facility charges not exceed the reasonable costs, determined based on an independent audit, to finance, design, and construct those facilities. Existing law requires the audit to be conducted prior to the collection of the customer facility charge, prior to any increase of the charge, and every 3 years after the initial collection of the charge."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 359"
citation: "California AB 359 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle rental agreements: customer facility charge."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holden"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2013-02-14"
last_action: "2013-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fe24f6a-2469-4393-ae0b-a24575744ec4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB359"
source_hash: "40cd7b371b7f15c457facce94d66900271bf5462d0ea865f129aa53dad92963e"
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 359 (20132014) — Vehicle rental agreements: customer facility charge.

Existing law governs contracts between rental car companies and their customers. Existing law authorizes a company that rents passenger vehicles to the public to collect a customer facility charge, which means a fee that is required by an airport to be collected to finance, design, and construct airport car rental facilities, transportation systems, and terminal modifications, if specified circumstances apply. Existing law requires the aggregate amount collected from customer facility charges not exceed the reasonable costs, determined based on an independent audit, to finance, design, and construct those facilities. Existing law requires the audit to be conducted prior to the collection of the customer facility charge, prior to any increase of the charge, and every 3 years after the initial collection of the charge.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB359&version=20130AB35999INT)
2. **05/13/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB359&version=20130AB35998AMD)
3. **08/30/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB359&version=20130AB35997AMD)
4. **10/04/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB359&version=20130AB35995CHP)
5. **AB359** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB359)
6. **09/16/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB359&version=20130AB35996ENR)

## Votes

- AB 359 HOLDEN Assembly Third Reading By ALLEN — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 359 HOLDEN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB359 Holden By Hueso — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Holden — primary (person)
- Allen — principal coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2013-02-28** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-05-09** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-13** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1606.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-06** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2013-07-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-07-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-30** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2231.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-09-10** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
- **2013-09-10** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
- **2013-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3076.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2013-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 549, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2fe24f6a-2469-4393-ae0b-a24575744ec4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).