AB 218: Local agencies: airports: customer facility charges.

Existing law authorizes airports to require rental car companies to collect a customer facility charge under specified circumstances for purposes that include financing, designing, and constructing airport vehicle rental facilities and common-use transportation systems. Existing law specifies that the authorization for an airport to impose a customer facility charge becomes inoperative when the bonds used for financing are paid. Existing law, if a bond or other form of indebtedness is not used for financing or if a bond or other form of indebtedness used for financing has been paid, authorizes the Oakland International Airport to require a customer facility charge for a period of up to 10 years from the imposition of the charge, as specified.

This bill, until January 1, 2023, would delete the authorization pertaining to the Oakland International Airport and would delete the requirement that the general authorization for an airport to impose a customer facility charge become inoperative when the bonds are paid, except as applied to an alternative fee.

Existing law requires the customer facility charge, also referred to as a fee, to be $10 per contract, except as otherwise specified.

This bill, instead, would require that fee not to exceed $10. The bill also would prohibit an airport from requiring a rental company to collect a customer facility charge from a consumer if that requirement would result in the rental company collecting more than one customer facility charge from that consumer in connection with a single rental.

This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 50474.3 of the Government Code proposed by AB 1286 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1286 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.