BILL NUMBER: SB 875	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 25, 2011

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 amended, 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   provide  that the
provision applies to passenger and nonpassenger vehicle 
rentals   rental transactions  by a rental company
 and to all such transactions made before and after the
enactment of that provision   made on or after January
1, 2000  .
   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. 
    13800.1.   Section 13800 shall apply to passenger and
nonpassenger vehicle rental transactions by a rental company made on
or after January 1, 2000.