BILL NUMBER: AB 817	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 12, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

    An act to add Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 1936)
to Title 5 of Part 4 of Division 3 of, and to repeal Sections 1936,
1936.01, 1936.015, 1936.05, and 1936.1 of, the Civil Code, 
 An act  relating to vehicle rental contracts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 817, as amended, Gatto. Vehicle rental contracts.
   Existing law governs contracts between rental car companies and
their customers. Those provisions, among other things, require a
rental company to disclose specified information to a potential
renter, set forth a renter's responsibilities and liabilities, and
impose certain requirements on advertising.
   This bill would  revise and recast those provisions to,
among other things, recodify and reorganize the provisions, revise
the definitions of certain terms, including the definitions for
"additional charges" and "membership program" and make the
definitions used in those provisions consistent throughout those
provisions. The bill would state that its provisions are declaratory
of existing law   require the California Law Revision
Commission to study whether the laws regulating vehicle rental
companies and their c  onsu   mers would benefit
from greater clarity and concision, and to report its findings and
recommendations to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2012
 .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
   
  SECTION 1.    The California Law Revision Commission shall
study whether the laws regulating vehicle rental companies and their
consumers, including, but not limited to, Sections 1936, 1936.01,
1936.015, 1936.05, and 1936.1 of the Civil Code, would benefit from
greater clarity and concision, and shall report its findings and
recommendations to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2012.
 All matter omitted in this version of the bill appears in the
bill as amended in the Assembly, April 17, 2011. (JR11)