republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-498.md

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Bill	Self-service storage facilities: lien notices: email.	Existing law, the California Self-Storage Facility Act, authorizes a self-storage facility owner to terminate the right of an occupant to the use of a storage space if rent or other charges due remain unpaid for 14 consecutive days by sending a lien notice and the total sum due has not been paid by the termination date specified in the preliminary lien notice, in accordance with specified procedures. Existing law authorizes an owner to send lien notices to the occupant by email if the rental agreement states that lien notices may be sent by email and the occupant provides a written signature on the rental agreement consenting to receive lien notices by email. Existing law specifies the ways an owner may demonstrate actual delivery and receipt of the lien notices sent by email, including by posting the document on the owner's secure internet website and there is evidence demonstrating that the occupant logged onto the licensee's secure internet website and downloaded, printed, viewed, or otherwise acknowledged receipt of the document.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 498	California AB 498 (20252026)	bill	Self-servicestoragefacilities email liennotices	enacted	Michelle Rodriguez	5	18	4	2025-02-10	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/6a4f8b48-fb89-43de-8642-1e0e6ca4a01a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB498	ab9637669e9b5f1eb7e06efd8df510d715c25dd8bc64a0f09002d05b991fdf0a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 498 (20252026) — Self-service storage facilities: lien notices: email.

Existing law, the California Self-Storage Facility Act, authorizes a self-storage facility owner to terminate the right of an occupant to the use of a storage space if rent or other charges due remain unpaid for 14 consecutive days by sending a lien notice and the total sum due has not been paid by the termination date specified in the preliminary lien notice, in accordance with specified procedures. Existing law authorizes an owner to send lien notices to the occupant by email if the rental agreement states that lien notices may be sent by email and the occupant provides a written signature on the rental agreement consenting to receive lien notices by email. Existing law specifies the ways an owner may demonstrate actual delivery and receipt of the lien notices sent by email, including by posting the document on the owner's secure internet website and there is evidence demonstrating that the occupant logged onto the licensee's secure internet website and downloaded, printed, viewed, or otherwise acknowledged receipt of the document.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB498 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/27/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd AB498 Michelle Rodriguez — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 498 Michelle Rodriguez Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Michelle Rodriguez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2025-02-24 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-03-17 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
• 2025-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-04-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-07 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-07-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-17 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2249.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-08-26 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2025-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 369, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6a4f8b48-fb89-43de-8642-1e0e6ca4a01a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).