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SB470 • 2025

Provides a cause of action for invasion of personal privacy against a transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's capturing, making, storing, transferring, transmitting or broadcasting, or intentionally permitting another person to make, store, transfer, transmit or broadcast, a visual image or recording or audio of a plaintiff while the plaintiff occupies a private space within transient lodging that is under the transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's ownership or control.

Provides a cause of action for invasion of personal privacy against a transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's capturing, making, storing, transferring, transmitting or broadcasting, or intentionally permitting another person to make, store, transfer, transmit or broadcast, a visual image or recording or audio of a plaintiff while the plaintiff occupies a private space within transient lodging that is under the transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's ownership or control.

Privacy
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Senator Prozanski, Senator Manning Jr,, Representative Andersen,, Chotzen,, Dobson,, Fragala,, Gamba,, Gomberg,, Grayber,, Hartman,, Hudson,, Javadi,, McDonald,, Nathanson,, Nosse,, Tran,, Walters,, Watanabe,
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
Chapter Number Assigned
Effective date
Not listed

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-20 Senate

    Chapter 289, 2025 Laws.

  2. 2025-06-20 Senate

    Effective on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

  3. 2025-06-09 Senate

    Governor signed.

  4. 2025-06-02 House

    Speaker signed.

  5. 2025-05-30 Senate

    President signed.

  6. 2025-05-29 House

    Third reading. Carried by Chotzen. Passed. Ayes, 49; Excused, 7--Diehl, Evans, Gamba, Levy B, Nguyen H, Wallan, Watanabe; Excused for Business of the House, 3--Drazan, Mannix, Sanchez.

  7. 2025-05-28 House

    Rules suspended. Carried over to May 29, 2025 Calendar.

  8. 2025-05-27 House

    Rules suspended. Carried over to May 28, 2025 Calendar.

  9. 2025-05-23 House

    Carried over to May 27, 2025 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.

  10. 2025-05-22 House

    Second reading.

  11. 2025-05-21 House

    Recommendation: Do pass.

  12. 2025-05-15 House

    Work Session held.

  13. 2025-04-24 House

    Public Hearing held.

  14. 2025-04-01 House

    Referred to Judiciary.

  15. 2025-03-27 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

  16. 2025-03-25 Senate

    Third reading. Carried by Broadman. Passed. Ayes, 29; Excused, 1--Woods.

  17. 2025-03-25 Senate

    Gelser Blouin, excused, granted unanimous consent to vote aye.

  18. 2025-03-24 Senate

    Carried over to 03-25 by unanimous consent.

  19. 2025-03-20 Senate

    Second reading.

  20. 2025-03-19 Senate

    Recommendation: Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.)

  21. 2025-03-12 Senate

    Work Session held.

  22. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Public Hearing held.

  23. 2025-01-17 Senate

    Referred to Judiciary.

  24. 2025-01-13 Senate

    Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

<b>Digest: Lets a person sue if someone makes, stores or shows a visual image or recording of the person while the person is in private space in a hotel or like place. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).</b>
[<i>Digest: Tells a person that offers, in return for money, a space for others to stay for a short time, and any other person that assists the person to offer the space, that they may not make, store, show or give to another person an audio or video record of a person that stays in the space. Allows the person that stays in the space to sue for violations of the law. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.4).</i>]
[<i>Prohibits a transient lodging provider and a transient lodging intermediary from making, storing, transmitting or transferring an audio or video recording of an occupant of transient lodging in any space within the transient lodging in which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Punishes violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.</i>]
<b>Provides a cause of action for invasion of personal privacy against a transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's capturing, making, storing, transferring, transmitting or broadcasting, or intentionally permitting another person to make, store, transfer, transmit or broadcast, a visual image or recording or audio of a plaintiff while the plaintiff occupies a private space within transient lodging that is under the transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's ownership or control.</b>
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to recordings of occupants of transient lodging; and prescribing an effective date.
Current location: Chapter Number Assigned