AB-2721 • 2026

Unfair Competition Law: hotels.

Labor

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Carrillo
Last action: 2026-04-23
Official status: Read second time and amended.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on penalties for non-compliance or frequency of updates required for the notice.

Hotel Disclosure Law

This law requires hotels to post notices about any known or suspected contracts with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

What This Bill Does

Requires hotel operators to disclose any known or suspected contracts with CBP or ICE by posting a notice in a conspicuous place on the premises.
Specifies that the notice must be placed where both guests and workers can easily see it.

Who It Names or Affects

Hotel operators who have or suspect they might have contracts with CBP or ICE.
Guests staying at hotels required to post notices.
Workers employed by the hotels.

Terms To Know

Unfair Competition Law (UCL): A law that stops businesses from doing unfair things and requires them to be honest with customers.
Innkeeper: The person who owns or manages a hotel.

Limits and Unknowns

Does not specify what happens if a hotel does not follow this law.
Only applies to hotels that have contracts with CBP or ICE, not all federal agencies.
Does not say how often the notice needs to be updated.

Bill History

2026-04-23 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended.
2026-04-22 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (April 21).
2026-03-24 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
2026-03-23 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended.
2026-03-23 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
2026-02-21 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-02-20 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 2721, as amended, Carrillo.
Unfair Competition Law: hotels.
Existing law, the Unfair Competition Law (UCL), makes various practices unlawful and provides that a person who engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition is liable for a civil penalty and subject to injunction, as specified. The UCL authorizes actions prosecuted under its provisions to be brought by certain public attorneys, including by the Attorney General, a city attorney of a city having a population in excess of 750,000, or by a county counsel of any county within which a city has a population in excess of 750,000. The UCL prohibits the distribution, as provided, of any handbill, as defined, to any individual guest rooms in any hotel where the innkeeper has expressed objection to handbill distribution, as specified. The UCL provides that these provisions do not prohibit the distribution of a handbill to guest rooms in any hotel where the distribution has
been requested or approved in writing by the innkeeper, or to any individual guest room when the occupant thereof has affirmatively requested or approved the distribution of the handbill during the duration of the guest’s occupancy.
This bill would require, under the UCL,
the operator of
a hotel to disclose
any contracts or
the existence of any
reservations that
it
the operator knows, or should know, the hotel
has with
any federal agency
the United States Customs and Border Protection or United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
by posting a
prescribed
notice in a place on the premises
of the hotel
that is
conspicuous
prominently displayed
to both workers and guests.

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