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Bill	Rental passenger vehicles.	(1) Existing law generally governs the transactions between a rental car company, also referred to as a rental company, and its customers, including, among other provisions, required disclosures by a rental company, mandatory contract provisions for a vehicle rental agreement, restrictions on a rental company's use of electronic surveillance technology, and authorization for a rental company to collect specific types of fees and charges from its customers. Existing law defines terms for its purposes.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2051	California AB 2051 (20152016)	bill	Rental passenger vehicles.	enacted	O'Donnell	7	24	6	2016-02-17	2016-08-25	openstates	ocd-bill/3ee04329-f038-4bd1-aa67-a04056bb9fcd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2051	73bd6e3655e08143bc6f91b1c7616748dda43d0ef8b145ffa69d75ebd0e7d36b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2051 (20152016) — Rental passenger vehicles.

(1) Existing law generally governs the transactions between a rental car company, also referred to as a rental company, and its customers, including, among other provisions, required disclosures by a rental company, mandatory contract provisions for a vehicle rental agreement, restrictions on a rental company's use of electronic surveillance technology, and authorization for a rental company to collect specific types of fees and charges from its customers. Existing law defines terms for its purposes.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/13/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/02/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/25/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2051 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/16/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent AB2051 O'Donnell — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2051 O'DONNELL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2051 O'DONNELL Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• O'Donnell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2016-02-29 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2016-03-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-03-29 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-04-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-04-07 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4785.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-03 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2016-08-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4878.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-15 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5810.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2016-08-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-08-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 183, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3ee04329-f038-4bd1-aa67-a04056bb9fcd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).