SB 761: Advertising: Internet private residence rental listings: notice.

Existing law requires an operator of a commercial Internet Web site or online service that collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California who use or visit its commercial Internet Web site or online service to conspicuously post its privacy policy on its Internet Web site. Existing law also limits advertising by an operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application directed to minors, as provided.

This bill would require a hosting platform, as defined, to provide a specific notice to an occupant listing a residence for short-term rental on a hosting platform that states, among other things, that, if the occupant is a tenant, listing the room, home, condominium, or apartment may violate the lease or contract and could result in legal action by the landlord, including possible eviction. This bill would require the notice to be in a particular font size and be provided immediately before the occupant lists each real property on the hosting platforms Internet Web site in a manner that requires the occupant to interact with the hosting platforms Internet Web site to affirmatively acknowledge he or she has read the notice.