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Bill	Short-term lodging: advertising: rates.	Existing law makes it unlawful for any owner or operator of a motel, motor court, or like establishment to post or maintain outdoor advertising signs relating to room rates that has any untrue, misleading, false, or fraudulent representations, and specified other requirements on outdoor signs for those establishments. Existing law also prohibits an owner or operator of a hotel or motel from increasing the hotel or motel's rates upon the proclamation of a state of emergency by the President of the United States or the Governor or upon the declaration of a local emergency, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 537	California AB 537 (20232024)	bill	Short-term lodging advertising rates	enacted	Berman	10	31	9	2023-02-08	2023-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/ec1b433e-022d-49d3-9677-3668af852301	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB537	70bf4a6e5d8074c3d430de49c602954d325636931dcf91a169bc3efb8b404f0d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 537 (20232024) — Short-term lodging: advertising: rates.

Existing law makes it unlawful for any owner or operator of a motel, motor court, or like establishment to post or maintain outdoor advertising signs relating to room rates that has any untrue, misleading, false, or fraudulent representations, and specified other requirements on outdoor signs for those establishments. Existing law also prohibits an owner or operator of a hotel or motel from increasing the hotel or motel's rates upon the proclamation of a state of emergency by the President of the United States or the Governor or upon the declaration of a local emergency, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/08/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/19/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/18/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/15/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/29/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/13/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB537 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 537 Berman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 537 Berman Assembly Third Reading — 53–8 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB537 Berman et al. By Glazer — 30–8 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 13–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Berman — primary (person)
• Addis — coauthor (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Bryan — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)
• Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Glazer — principal coauthor (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• Papan — coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)
• Ward — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)
• Wilson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-08 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-09 From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
• 2023-02-17 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-04-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (April 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-12 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-04-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 18). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1580.)
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (May 18). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 8. Page 1845.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-06-15 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-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 27). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-14 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2621.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 4. Page 3359.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 805, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ec1b433e-022d-49d3-9677-3668af852301. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).