AB 2202: Short-term rentals: disclosure: cleaning tasks.

Existing law, commencing July 1, 2024, prohibits a place of short-term lodging, an internet website, application, or other similar centralized platform, or any other person from advertising, displaying, or offering a room rate that does not include all fees or charges required to stay at the short-term lodging, and requires that they include in the total price to be paid, all taxes and fees imposed by a government on the stay before the consumer reserves the stay. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions subject to a specified civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 and authorizes an action to enforce these provisions to be brought by a city attorney, district attorney, county counsel, or the Attorney General.

This bill would require a place of short-term lodging, an internet website, application, or other similar centralized platform, or any other person to also disclose any additional fees or charges that will be added to the total price to be paid, or other penalty that will be imposed, if the consumer fails to perform certain cleaning tasks at the end of the stay, as specified. The bill would also require a place of short-term lodging or any other person that advertises or lists a place of short-term lodging as available to rent on an internet website, application, or other similar centralized platform to include in their short-term lodging listing on the internet website, application, or platform the information that the bill requires to be disclosed to the consumer. The bill would also make a person who knew or should have known that it has advertised, displayed, or offered a place of short-term lodging in violation of these provisions subject to civil penalty and enforcement provisions as described above. The bill would make its provisions operative on July 1, 2025.