BILL NUMBER: AB 229	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 18, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 16, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 7, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 22, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chang
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Brough, Kim, Low, and Olsen)

                        FEBRUARY 4, 2015

   An act to add and repeal Section 19822.4 of the Government Code,
relating to public employment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 229, as amended, Chang. State employees: travel reimbursement.
   Under existing law and bargaining agreements, the state reimburses
employees for all necessary and actual expenses they incur when they
travel on official state business.
   This bill would, until January 1, 2019, prohibit a state agency
from prohibiting state employees traveling on official state business
from using transportation provided by a transportation network
company or lodging in a short-term rental, as defined. The bill would
require a state agency to reimburse the actual and necessary
expenses of a state employee using a transportation network company
or a short-term rental consistent with the agency's standard
reimbursement policies. The bill would request and encourage the
University of California to adopt travel reimbursement policies in
accordance with that prohibition. The bill would define terms for
those purposes.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 19822.4 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   19822.4.  (a) As used in this section:
   (1) "Short-term rental" means a residential property  that
  that: (A)  is rented to a visitor for fewer than
30 days through a centralized online platform whereby the rental is
advertised and payments for the rental are securely 
processed.   processed and (B) maintains commercial
liability insurance providing coverage for claims of bodily 
 injury or property damage arising from the short-term rental
stay in an amount not less than five hundred thousand dollars
($500,000) per occurrence.  For purposes of travel
reimbursement, a short-term rental shall be considered a commercial
lodging establishment.
   (2) "Transportation network company" has the same meaning as
defined in Section 5431 of the Public Utilities Code.
   (b) (1) A state agency shall not prohibit state employees
traveling on official state business from using transportation
provided by a transportation network company or lodging in a
short-term rental.
   (2) Reimbursement shall be provided for necessary and actual
expenses, consistent with the agency's policies for reimbursement of
other lodging establishments or other vehicles for hire.
   (c) The Legislature requests and encourages the University of
California to adopt travel reimbursement policies in accordance with
this section.
   (d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2019, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2019, deletes or extends
that date.