CA SB620

Exempts low-impact camping areas from special occupancy park regulations if located in counties with authorizing ordinances and meeting specified requirements, including maximum 9 temporary sleeping accommodations, 14 consecutive nights and 28 annual nights per camper limits, and 2+ acre minimum parcels.

Requires counties authorizing low-impact camping to establish registries, create complaint programs, and enforce waste disposal and quiet hours (10 p.m. to 6 a.m.) requirements.

Directs the Director of the Office of Tourism to seek voluntary agreements with online hosting platforms to collect and remit a tourism assessment of at least 2% of low-impact camping booking costs, with funds deposited in the Rural Tourism Marketing Fund.

Establishes the Rural Tourism Marketing Fund as continuously appropriated, with 50% of revenue supporting the California Travel and Tourism Commission's rural marketing programs and 50% funding statewide nonmotorized trails through the State Coastal Conservancy.

Sunsets the low-impact camping provisions on January 1, 2026, unless voluntary agreements with online hosting platforms remain in effect.