BILL NUMBER: SB 875	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Price

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add Section 13800.1 to the Business and Professions
Code, relating to rental vehicles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 875, as introduced, Price. Rental vehicles.
   Existing law authorizes a rental vehicle fuel gauge installed by a
vehicle's manufacturer to be used in a rental transaction by a
rental company to calculate an optional charge for fueling, under
specified circumstances.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to confirm
that the enactment of that provision clarified, but did not change,
existing law, and that the provision applies to passenger and
nonpassenger vehicle rentals by a rental company and to all such
transactions made before and after the enactment of that provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 13800.1 is added to the Business and
Professions Code, to read:
   13800.1.  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this
section to confirm that the enactment of Section 13800 clarified, but
did not change, existing law. Section 13800 applies to passenger and
nonpassenger vehicle rentals by a rental company and to all such
rental transactions made before and after the enactment of Section
13800.