BILL NUMBER: SB 761	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hall

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to add Section 17538.2 to the Business and Professions
Code, relating to business.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 761, as introduced, Hall. Advertising: Internet.
   Existing law prohibits a person, corporation or association, or
any employee of a corporation or association, from engaging in
advertising practices conducted by specified means of dissemination
or publication, including the Internet, where a statement is made or
disseminated that is untrue or misleading and which, by the exercise
of reasonable care, should be known to be untrue or misleading.
Existing law requires a vendor conducting business through the
Internet or any other electronic means of communication, when a
transaction involves a buyer in this state, to disclose to the buyer
the vendor's return and refund policy and various other information.
A violation of these provisions is a crime.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would require an operator of a commercial Internet
Web site that meets specified criteria to provide public disclosures
and consumer protections when presenting or offering to consumers
vacation home rentals or temporary living spaces.
   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 17538.2 is added to the Business and
Professions Code, to read:
   17538.2.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
that would require an operator of a commercial Internet Web site
that meets specified criteria to provide public disclosures and
consumer protections when presenting or offering to consumers
vacation home rentals or temporary living spaces.