Existing law, the Short-Term Rental Facilitator Act of 2025, authorizes a local agency to enact an ordinance to require a short-term rental facilitator, as defined, to report, in the form and manner prescribed by the local agency, the physical address of each short-term rental, as defined, during the reporting period. Existing law requires a short-term rental facilitator, in a jurisdiction that has adopted an ordinance, to include in the listing of a short-term rental any applicable local license number associated with the short-term rental and any transient occupancy tax certification issued by a local agency. Existing law authorizes a local agency to, if the short-term rental facilitator is responsible for collecting and remitting the transient occupancy tax to the local agency pursuant to a local ordinance or collection agreement, conduct an audit or otherwise examine the records of the short-term rental facilitator documenting the receipt of the transient occupancy tax due and payable to the local agency.
This bill would authorize an Indian tribe, as defined, to exercise the same powers a local agency has under the Short-Term Rental Facilitator Act of 2025. The bill would provide that an "ordinance" under the act includes a tribal law of an Indian tribe, and would make other conforming changes.
Existing law defines "transient occupancy tax" for purposes of the Short-Term Rental Facilitator Act of 2025 to mean a tax imposed by a local agency on the privilege of occupying a short-term rental as specified and defined by the local agency in its ordinance.
This bill would provide that a transient occupancy tax additionally includes assessments imposed by a local agency or Indian tribe on the privilege of occupying a short-term rental as specified and defined by the local agency or Indian tribe in its ordinance.

Statutes affected:
SB 594: 40060 PRC
02/20/25 - Introduced: 40060 PRC
03/24/25 - Amended Senate: 40060 PRC
06/03/26 - Amended Assembly: 50990 GOV, 50990 GOV, 50991 GOV, 50991 GOV, 50993 GOV, 50993 GOV, 50994 GOV, 50994 GOV, 50995 GOV, 50995 GOV, 50996 GOV, 50996 GOV