Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator.

Plain English Breakdown

The exact details of fines and how information is used by local agencies remain unspecified in the official source material.

Local Rules for Short-Term Rentals

This law allows cities, counties, or city and county governments to create rules requiring short-term rental companies to report the addresses of their listings.

What This Bill Does

• Allows local agencies (cities, counties, or city and county) to make rules for short-term rental facilitators.
• Requires these facilitators to provide physical addresses, including ZIP Codes, of all short-term rentals in their listings.
• Gives local agencies permission to ask for more information if needed.
• Lets local agencies fine companies that do not follow the reporting rules.
• Needs short-term rental companies to include any required licenses and tax certifications with their listings.

Who It Names or Affects

• Local governments (cities, counties, or city and county).
• Short-term rental facilitators (companies managing rentals like Airbnb)

Terms To Know

short-term rental facilitator

A company that helps people rent out their homes or rooms for short periods of time, such as through websites.

transient occupancy tax

A tax charged to visitors who stay in hotels, motels, or other temporary lodging places.

Limits and Unknowns

• The law does not specify how local agencies should use the information provided by short-term rental facilitators.
• It is unclear what specific fines will be imposed for non-compliance with reporting rules.

Official Summary Text

SB 346, Durazo.
Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator.
Existing law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to regulate the occupancy of a room or rooms, or other living space, in a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, or other lodging for a period of less than 30 days.
This bill would authorize a local agency, defined to mean a city, county, or city and county, to enact an ordinance to require a short-term rental facilitator, as defined, to report, in the form and manner prescribed by the local agency, the physical address, including 9-digit ZIP Code, of each short-term rental, as defined, during the reporting
period. The bill would also authorize a local agency to request additional information, as provided, when the physical address is not sufficient for the local agency to identify a specific short-term rental. The bill would authorize the local agency to impose an administrative fine or penalty for failure to file the report, and would authorize the local agency to initiate an audit of a short-term rental facilitator, as described. The bill would require a short-term rental facilitator, in a jurisdiction that has adopted an ordinance, to include in the listing of a short-term rental any applicable local license number associated with the short-term rental and any transient occupancy tax certification issued by a local agency. The bill would state these provisions do not preempt a local agency from adopting an ordinance that regulates short-term rentals, short-term rental facilitators, or the payment and collection of transient occupancy taxes in a manner that differs from
those described in the bill.

Current Bill Text

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