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type: "Bill"
title: "Rental passenger vehicles: electronic surveillance technology: renter liability for loss due to theft."
description: "Existing law generally governs the transactions between a rental car company, also referred to as a rental company, and its customers, as provided. Existing law prohibits a rental company from using, accessing, or obtaining any information relating to the renter's use of the rental vehicle that was obtained using electronic surveillance technology, as defined, except under specified circumstances. Existing law permits a rental company and a renter to limit the responsibilities of a renter in specified events, including loss due to theft of the rented vehicle up to its fair market value, as provided. Existing law establishes, in the situation described in the previous sentence, a presumption that the renter has no liability for loss due to theft if specified conditions are met, including that an authorized driver has possession of the ignition key or establishes that the ignition key was not in the vehicle at the time of the theft, as provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 1197"
citation: "California AB 1197 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Rentalpassengervehicles", "electronicsurveillancetechnology", "renterliabilityforlossduetotheft"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37211ab4-d781-4df2-80a4-328aff3b3d5f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1197"
source_hash: "5a3330f8a67a043919d0ce0c94ad4913cec01bc97354a01d6793f0fda85f92c6"
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 1197 (20252026) — Rental passenger vehicles: electronic surveillance technology: renter liability for loss due to theft.
Existing law generally governs the transactions between a rental car company, also referred to as a rental company, and its customers, as provided. Existing law prohibits a rental company from using, accessing, or obtaining any information relating to the renter's use of the rental vehicle that was obtained using electronic surveillance technology, as defined, except under specified circumstances. Existing law permits a rental company and a renter to limit the responsibilities of a renter in specified events, including loss due to theft of the rented vehicle up to its fair market value, as provided. Existing law establishes, in the situation described in the previous sentence, a presumption that the renter has no liability for loss due to theft if specified conditions are met, including that an authorized driver has possession of the ignition key or establishes that the ignition key was not in the vehicle at the time of the theft, as provided.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/21/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1197&version=20250AB119799INT)
2. **03/28/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1197&version=20250AB119798AMD)
3. **04/10/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1197&version=20250AB119797AMD)
4. **04/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1197&version=20250AB119796AMD)
5. **05/08/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1197&version=20250AB119795AMD)
6. **06/26/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1197&version=20250AB119794AMD)
7. **10/07/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1197&version=20250AB119792CHP)
8. **AB1197** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1197)
9. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1197&version=20250AB119793ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1197 Calderon Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **11–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1197 Calderon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1197 Calderon By Grayson — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Calderon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2025-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2025-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-28** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and INS. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2025-04-10** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2025-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-24** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-28** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 6). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1649.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-04** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-25** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (June 24). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-26** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2705.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3239.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 449, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37211ab4-d781-4df2-80a4-328aff3b3d5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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