Sellers of travel.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not provide specific details on how the increased fees will be used beyond maintaining operations and administration.

Increase in Fees for Travel Sellers

The bill increases the annual fee that travel sellers must pay from $35 to $60, allowing further yearly adjustments based on inflation.

What This Bill Does

• Increases the maximum annual assessment for travel sellers from $35 to $60.
• Allows the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation to increase this fee once per fiscal year by an amount not more than the previous year's California Consumer Price Index (CPI) increase, with approval of the Attorney General.
• Requires a two-thirds vote in both houses of the Legislature for approval due to its impact as a tax levy.

Who It Names or Affects

• Travel sellers who must register annually with the Attorney General.
• The Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation which collects fees from travel sellers.

Terms To Know

Sellers of travel

Companies or individuals that sell travel packages, tours, and other vacation-related services to consumers.

Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation

A state corporation responsible for providing refunds to people who have been harmed by the failure of a seller of travel.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how the increased fees will be used beyond maintaining operations and administration.
• It is unclear what specific changes are made to existing legislative findings and declarations about regulating travel sellers.

Official Summary Text

AB 1758, as amended, Nguyen.
Sellers of travel.
Existing law regulates sellers of travel, as defined, and requires a seller of travel to annually register with the Attorney General. Existing law establishes the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation to provide restitution to a person aggrieved by the failure of a seller of travel, as specified, and provides for payment of claims from the Travel Consumer Restitution Fund established by the corporation. Existing law requires the corporation to establish and maintain an operations fund for the payment of costs of operations and administration. Existing law requires the corporation to bill and collect from each registered seller of travel an annual assessment not to exceed $35 for the operation fund.
This bill would increase the maximum amount of the assessment
for the operations fund to $60 and would authorize the corporation, with the approval of the Attorney General, to increase the maximum amount once per fiscal year in an amount not to exceed any one-year increase in the California Consumer Price Index for the immediately preceding year.
This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIII A of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of
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of the membership of each house of the Legislature.
This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law regulates sellers of travel, as defined, and requires their registration with the Attorney General. Existing law includes legislative findings and declarations with regard to the public welfare considerations that require the regulation of sellers of travel.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these findings and declarations.

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