CA AB3284

Cities and counties may license short-term rentals (residential properties rented for fewer than 30 days) and fix license fees under their police powers, with licensing cities or counties required to post licensee information (name, address, license number) on their websites.

Short-term rental offerors who obtain a license must include the license number on their listing, with violations subject to fines up to $1,000 per day for unlicensed listings, and hosting platforms must provide location information to licensing jurisdictions upon request.

Cities and counties may regulate hosting platforms by requiring disclosure of listing and booking information, prohibiting unlicensed short-term rentals from being listed, and prohibiting platforms from collecting fees for ancillary services.

Starting July 1, 2021, hosting platform operators must collect and remit any transient occupancy taxes levied by cities on short-term rentals, along with specified information about the rental and offeror, with collected taxes constituting a debt owed to the city.

The Legislature finds that transient occupancy tax collection on short-term rentals is a statewide concern rather than a municipal affair, applying these provisions to all cities including charter cities.