Self Storage Bill Watch List

SB 1103 (Menjivar D) Tenancy of commercial real properties: agreements: securities and costs.

Current Text: Amended: 4/22/2024 

Last Amend: 4/22/2024

Status: 4/30/2024-VOTE: Do pass as amended (PASS)

Location: 2/21/2024-S. JUD.

Summary: (1)Existing law requires a landlord of a residential dwelling to give notice to the tenant a certain number of days before the effective date of a rent increase depending on the amount of the increase, as specified.This bill would apply this requirement to leases of commercial real property by a qualified commercial tenant, as defined. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SB 1154 (Hurtado D) California Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act of 2024.

Current Text: Amended: 3/18/2024 

Last Amend: 3/18/2024

Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was JUD. on 2/21/2024)

Location: 4/25/2024-S. DEAD

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 through civil actions. This bill, the California Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act of 2024 (the act), would require a person, as defined, upon request of the Attorney General, to provide to the Attorney General a written report, as specified, on each pricing algorithm, as defined, identified in the request. The act would require that all information submitted in a report under these provisions be treated as confidential and be considered privileged and confidential trade secrets exempt from disclosure under the California Public Records Act. The act would authorize the Attorney General to share the report with the National Institute of Standards and Technology for technical assistance in understanding the report, as specified. This act would prohibit a person from using or distributing any pricing algorithm that uses, incorporates, or was trained with nonpublic competitor data, as defined. If the Attorney General has reason to believe that a person has violated these provisions, the act would authorize the Attorney General to bring a civil action against the person in any court of competent jurisdiction in this state, as specified.

SB 1286 (Min D)   Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: covered debt: commercial debts.   

Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2024   

Last Amend: 4/25/2024 Status: 4/25/2024-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 4/24/2024-S. APPR.

Summary: The Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act prohibits debt collectors from engaging in unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the collection of consumer debts and requires debtors to act fairly in entering into and honoring those debts. Current law defines “debt collection” as any act or practice in connection with the collection of consumer debts. Current law defines “consumer debt” for these purposes to mean money, property, or their equivalent, due or owing, or alleged to be due or owing, from a natural person by reason of a consumer credit transaction. Existing law also defines “consumer debt” to include a mortgage debt. This bill would recast those provisions to expand the scope of those provisions to additionally prohibit debt collectors from engaging in unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the collection of covered commercial debts, as defined, and to make conforming changes. 

SB 1486 (Dahle R) Accessibility: internet websites.

Current Text: Amended: 3/20/2024 html pdf

Last Amend: 3/20/2024

Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was JUD. on 4/3/2024)

Location: 4/25/2024-S. DEAD

Summary: Current law imposes liability upon a person who denies, aids or incites a denial of, or makes any discrimination or distinction contrary to, rights afforded by law for actual damages suffered, exemplary damages, a civil penalty, and attorney’s fees, as specified, to any person who was denied the specified rights. Current law also imposes liability upon a person, firm, or corporation that denies or interferes with admittance to, or enjoyment of, public facilities or otherwise interferes with the rights of an individual with a disability, as specified, for damages and attorney’s fees to a person who was denied those rights. This bill would provide that statutory damages based upon the inaccessibility of an internet website under these provisions shall only be recovered against an entity, as defined, if the internet website fails to provide equally effective communication or facilitate full and equal enjoyment of the entity’s goods and services to all members of the public. The bill would make statutory damages for internet website inaccessibility contingent on the plaintiff proving that they had one of 2 sets of experiences. Specifically, the plaintiff may prove that they personally encountered a specific barrier that caused a difference in the plaintiff’s access to or use of the internet website as compared to other users, as specified. Alternatively, the plaintiff may prove that they were deterred from accessing all or part of the internet website, as specified, because of the internet website’s failure to provide equally effective communication or to facilitate full and equal enjoyment of the entity’s goods and services offered to the public.