SB 1192 Summary

• Expands definition of "customer facility charge" to allow airports to collect fees for financing, designing, constructing, and operating common-use transportation systems, including acquiring vehicles for those systems.

• Authorizes airports to collect alternative per-day customer facility charges ($6 starting January 1, 2011; $7.50 starting January 2014; $9 starting January 2017) capped at 5 days per rental contract, following a public hearing and Controller review.

• Requires airports collecting alternative fees to submit annual reports to Legislature detailing total charges collected, fund usage, budget changes, and concession fee increases, with independent audits every 3 years paid by the airport.

• Mandates State Controller to review airport audits, substantiate fee necessity and amounts, and report findings to Legislature; airport must reimburse Controller's costs.

• Maintains existing $10 per-contract customer facility charge option for consolidated rental car facilities and clarifies fee revenues cannot exceed reasonable project costs and are exempt from sales and transaction taxes.