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Bill	Rental passenger vehicle transactions.	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 and prohibited contract provisions for a vehicle rental agreement, and authorization for a rental company to collect specific types of fees and charges from its customers. Existing law authorizes a rental company to sell a damage waiver for each rental day and imposes rate limitations on damage waivers based on the category of vehicle.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 901	California AB 901 (20212022)	bill	Rental passenger vehicle transactions.	enacted	Calderon	10	27	5	2021-02-17	2021-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/27605efb-9903-4f33-9709-9e85d55f674f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB901	f2eb48e794ac6813f9450d9861ab5eb2074acf53d5dd3dcc602df13a9dd9dc0f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 901 (20212022) — Rental passenger vehicle transactions.

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 and prohibited contract provisions for a vehicle rental agreement, and authorization for a rental company to collect specific types of fees and charges from its customers. Existing law authorizes a rental company to sell a damage waiver for each rental day and imposes rate limitations on damage waivers based on the category of vehicle.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/27/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/08/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/30/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/30/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB901 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 901 Calderon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 10–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB901 Calderon By Hertzberg — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 901 Calderon Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Calderon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2021-03-18 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2021-03-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-04-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-28 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1287.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-05-12 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 1. Page 1717.) (June 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-07-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-07-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2530.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 1. Page 2975.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 415, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27605efb-9903-4f33-9709-9e85d55f674f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).