Self Storage Bill Watch List

AB 21 (DeMaio R) Taxpayer Protection Act of 2025.

Current Text: Introduced: 12/2/2024 html pdf

Status: 12/3/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee January 2.

Location: 12/2/2024-A. PRINT

Summary: Would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact a constitutional amendment to limit the ability of state and local governments to raise taxes, restore a 2/3 vote requirement on local special tax increases, impose voter approval requirements on specific categories of new taxes, and regulate the titles on state and local ballot measures relating to tax increases

Current Text: Amended: 3/5/2025 

Last Amend: 3/5/2025

Status: 3/6/2025-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 3/6/2025-A. THIRD READING

Summary: The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, among other things, authorizes an owner of residential real property to establish initial and subsequent rental rates for a dwelling or unit that meets specified conditions, subject to certain exceptions. Current law, until January 1, 2030, prohibits an owner of residential real property from, over the course of any 12-month period, increasing the gross rental rate, as specified, for a dwelling or a unit more than 5% plus the percentage change in the cost of living, or 10%, whichever is lower, of the lowest gross rental rate charged for that dwelling or unit at any time during the 12 months before the effective date of the increase, subject to specified conditions. This bill, notwithstanding any other law, would prohibit an owner of residential real property from charging a rental rate for a dwelling or a unit that had a tenant in lawful possession of the residential real property on or before January 7, 2025, and is located in the County of Los Angeles in excess of the rental rate for the dwelling or unit charged on January 7, 2025, except as specified. The bill would remain in effect until March 1, 2026, and would be repealed as of that date.

AB 325 (Aguiar-Curry D) Cartwright Act: violations.

Current Text: Introduced: 1/27/2025 

Status: 1/28/2025-From printer. May be heard in committee February 27.

Location: 1/27/2025-A. PRINT

Summary: Current law imposes various requirements on the Attorney General related to consumer protection, including, among others, the supervision of charitable trusts and the enforcement of antitrust laws. Current law, commonly known as the Cartwright Act, identifies certain acts that are unlawful restraints of trade and unlawful trusts and prescribes provisions for its enforcement. Current law requires a complaint or cross-complaint to contain, among other things, a statement of facts constituting the cause of action, in ordinary and concise language. This bill would instead provide that in a complaint for any violation of the Cartwright Act, it is sufficient to contain factual allegations demonstrating that the existence of a contract, combination in the form of a trust, or conspiracy to restrain trade or commerce is plausible. The bill would provide that a complaint for any violation of the Cartwright Act is not required to allege facts tending to exclude the possibility of independent action. This bill would also prohibit a person from using or distributing any pricing algorithm that uses, incorporates, or was trained with nonpublic competitor data, as defined.

Current Text: Amended: 3/4/2025

Last Amend: 3/4/2025

Status: 3/5/2025-Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

Location: 2/18/2025-A. PUB. S.

Summary: Under current law, upon the proclamation of a state of emergency by the President of the United States or the Governor, or upon the declaration of a local emergency by the executive officer of any county, city, or city and county, and for 30 days or 180 days, as specified, following the proclamation or declaration of emergency, it is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in county jail, a fine of $10,000, or both that imprisonment and fine, for a person, contractor, business, or other entity to sell or offer to sell certain goods or services for a price of more than 10% greater than the price charged by that person immediately prior to the proclamation or declaration of emergency. This bill would instead make that misdemeanor applicable for the duration of that proclamation or declaration and would increase the fine to $50,000.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/10/2025 html pdf

Status: 2/24/2025-Referred to Com. on JUD.

Location: 2/24/2025-A. JUD.

Summary: The California Self-Storage Facility Act authorizes a self-storage facility owner to terminate the right of an occupant to the use of a storage space if rent or other charges due remain unpaid for 14 consecutive days by sending a lien notice and the total sum due has not been paid by the termination date specified in the preliminary lien notice, in accordance with specified procedures. Current law authorizes an owner to send lien notices to the occupant by email if the rental agreement states that lien notices may be sent by email and the occupant provides a written signature on the rental agreement consenting to receive lien notices by email. Current law specifies the ways an owner may demonstrate actual delivery and receipt of the lien notices sent by email, including if the occupant acknowledges receipt of the electronic transmission of the document by executing an electronic signature. This bill would also authorize an owner to demonstrate actual delivery and receipt of a lien notice if the document is transmitted to the occupant using a system that confirms that the document was delivered to the occupant’s email address that includes the date and time of delivery and, before transmitting a document, the owner provides the occupant with the email address from which the owner will transmit the notices and directs the occupant to modify their email settings to bypass any spam filters.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2025 

Status: 2/14/2025-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.

Location: 2/13/2025-A. PRINT

Summary: Current law prohibits discrimination on the basis of various specified personal characteristics, including disability. Current law imposes minimum statutory damages for constructionrelated accessibility claims if the violation of a construction-related accessibility standard denied the plaintiff full and equal access to the place of public accommodation on a particular occasion, as specified. Current law provides that a plaintiff demonstrates that the plaintiff was deterred from accessing a place of public accommodation on a particular occasion only if both (1) the plaintiff had actual knowledge of a violation, as specified, and (2) the violation would have actually denied the plaintiff full and equal access, as specified. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the abovedescribed provision.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/14/2025 

Status: 3/3/2025-Referred to Com. on P. & C.P.

Location: 3/3/2025-A. P. & C.P.

Summary: The Real Estate Law provides for the licensure and regulation of real estate brokers and salespersons by the Real Estate Commissioner, the chief officer of the Department of Real Estate within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. Current law provides various duties and obligations owed to a prospective purchaser of real property. A willful violation of the Real Estate Law is a crime. This bill would require a real estate broker or salesperson who includes a digitally altered image, as defined, in an advertisement or other promotional material for the sale of real property to include a disclosure, as specified. If the advertisement or promotional material is posted on an internet website, the bill would require the real estate broker or salesperson to additionally include the same image without digital alteration.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2025 

Status: 3/3/2025-Referred to Com. on L. & E.

Location: 3/3/2025-A. L. & E.

Summary: Current law establishes the Employment Training Fund in the State Treasury, and requires that moneys in the fund be expended only for the purposes of the Employment Training Panel, except as provided. Current law authorizes, with the approval of the Legislature, the fund or contributions to it to be used to pay interest charged on federal loans to the Unemployment Fund. This bill would instead prohibit moneys in the fund from being diverted, transferred, or otherwise used to pay interest charged on federal loans to the Unemployment Fund, or related liabilities, without the approval of the Legislature by statute and a public report justifying the necessity for the diversion, transfer, or use.

 

Current Text: Introduced: 2/20/2025 

Status: 2/21/2025-From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

Location: 2/20/2025-A. PRINT

Summary: The California Emergency Services Act authorizes the Governor to declare a state of emergency, and local officials and local governments to declare a local emergency, when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and authorizes the Governor or the appropriate local government to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency. Current law defines 3 conditions or degrees of emergency for purposes of these provisions. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/21/2025 

Status: 2/24/2025-Read first time.

Location: 2/21/2025-A. PRINT

Summary: Existing law requires various types of notices to be provided in a “newspaper of general circulation,” as that term is defined, in accordance with certain prescribed publication periods and legal requirements. Existing law requires a newspaper of general circulation to meet certain criteria, including publication, a bona fide subscription list of paying subscribers, and printing and publishing at regular intervals in the state, county, or city where publication is to be given. This bill would require any public notice that is legally required to be published in a newspaper of general circulation to be published in the newspaper’s print publication, on the newspaper’s internet website or electronic newspaper available on the internet, and on the statewide internet website maintained as a repository for notices by a majority of California newspapers of general circulation, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.