New California laws in effect July 1: Hidden fee ban, lower rental deposits

SAN FRANCISCO -- If you ever thought you had a bully woody connected an Airbnb and past discovered a clump of hidden fees during checkout, a caller authorities instrumentality makes hiding those junk charges illegal.

That's conscionable 1 of galore laws taking effect July 1, 2024 successful California.

Here's what is changing:

RIGHT TO REPAIR

SB 244: It's going to beryllium easier and cheaper to get your iPhone fixed. The Right to Repair Act requires manufacturers to supply consumers and repair shops with the parts, tools and documentation needed to work oregon repair the device. The instrumentality affects location appliances and physics devices similar televisions, audio and video signaling instrumentality and cellphones that outgo astatine slightest $50.

HIDDEN FEES

SB 478: Makes it amerciable for businesses to advertise a terms for an point and past adhd hidden fees astatine the clip of purchase. The terms transparency instrumentality requires businesses, restaurants, websites and apps to show the existent outgo of an point oregon service, specified arsenic lodging, tickets for unrecorded events and nutrient transportation fees. Businesses bash not person to see taxes and shipping costs. A measure (SB 1524) inactive being considered would let restaurants to database other fees arsenic a abstracted point connected their menus alternatively of connected the nutrient price.

SHORT-TERM RENTALS

AB 537: Requires hotels, motels and short-term rentals connected Airbnb and Vrbo to disclose the full terms of a rental successful their advertised rate, including cleaning fees and different charges. Taxes and governments charges bash not person to beryllium included successful the rate. The instrumentality imposes a $10,000 punishment for not disclosing the existent outgo of the rental.

RENTAL DEPOSIT

AB 12: Any caller rental contracts for lodging signed aft July 1 volition lone necessitate 1 month's information deposit. Existing rental agreements that required larger deposits are not affected. Landlords tin inactive question further fees astatine the extremity of a lease if determination is harm that exceeds 1 month's deposit.

NO ROOFIES LAW

AB 1013: Requires businesses that merchantability intoxicant for depletion successful their premises to merchantability oregon springiness distant date-rape investigating testing kits to customers. Bars and nightclubs indispensable besides station signage successful their concern informing customers that the cause investigating kits are available. Businesses volition beryllium required to get get their ain kits.

SODIUM NITRATE

AB 1109

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Prohibiting online marketplaces from selling sodium nitrite to anyone nether the property of 18. Stores would beryllium required to verify the property of the idiosyncratic purchasing the chemical. A companion instrumentality (AB 1210) limits the merchantability of products with a attraction of sodium nitrite to nary greater than 10%. Known arsenic Tyler's Law, AB 1109 addresses the escalating contented of teen suicides.

FIREWORKS

AB 1403: Mandates that the State Fire Marshall place and measure methods to stitchery information connected fires, injuries and damages caused by amerciable fireworks and harmless and sane fireworks. The extremity is to bid instrumentality enforcement and occurrence unit connected seizing, transporting and storing fireworks, and prosecution of those caught with amerciable fireworks.

The instrumentality doubled fines for amerciable fireworks starting successful January of 2024.

FIREARMS TAX

AB 28: Imposes an 11% taxation connected the merchantability of firearms and ammunition. The wealth generated volition money weapon unit prevention and schoolhouse information programs. California is the archetypal authorities to instrumentality specified a law.

PERSONAL CAR SHARING

AB 893: Requires individuals who rent retired their conveyance utilizing adjacent to adjacent 3rd enactment platforms similar Turo oregon Getaround to wage the aforesaid tourism fees and taxes arsenic accepted car rental companies.

VEHICLE REGISTRATION

AB 256: Prohibits constabulary from stopping a conveyance solely due to the fact that the licence sheet registration has expired, unless astatine slightest a period has passed since the archetypal period of expiration. Law enforcement tin mention a conveyance with expired tags if the conveyance was stopped for different violation.

MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS

AB 230: Requires nationalist and charters schools with students from grades 3 and up to supply escaped menstrual products successful their bathrooms. Expands a erstwhile California instrumentality that required menstrual products starting successful the sixth grade.

SCHOOL ATHLETICS

AB 245: Requires precocious schoolhouse sports coaches, who already person grooming successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation, to person grooming successful recognizing and responding to signs and symptoms of cardiac arrest. It volition besides necessitate certification successful the usage of outer defibrillators.

'WILLFUL DEFIANCE'

SB 274: Prohibits the suspension oregon expulsion of students from kindergarten to 12th people for what's known arsenic 'willful defiance', defined arsenic disruption of schoolhouse activities oregon defying schoolhouse staff. Research studies person shown students of color, stateless and LGBTQ+ students are much apt to beryllium disciplined for willful defiance than different students.

The 'Keep Kids successful School' instrumentality requires schools to alternatively usage involution methods and supply enactment arsenic an alternative.

VIOLENCE PREVENTION

SB 553: Requires businesses with 10 oregon much employees to instrumentality and support a workplace unit prevention program. Employers indispensable bid workers connected however to place workplace unit hazards and however to respond to them. Employers indispensable support a log of workplace unit incidents.

HATE CRIMES

AB 449: Requires instrumentality enforcement agencies successful California to follow a hatred crimes argumentation that guides officers connected however to admit suspected hatred crimes. It authorizes the Department of Justice to reappraisal materials submitted to marque definite instrumentality enforcement departments are complying with the law.

PROPERTY DISCLOSURES

AB 968: Requires the proprietor of a single-family residential spot who is selling the location with 18 months of acquiring it to disclose the sanction of each contractor progressive successful immoderate country additions, structural modifications oregon repairs to the spot and copies of immoderate permits that were obtained. The instrumentality lone applies to caller transactions.

HOUSING CONSTRUCTION

SB 684: Allows cities and counties to physique mean sized lodging developments without the request for nationalist hearings oregon votes. The developments indispensable person 10 oregon less residential units and beryllium connected tons nary larger than 5 acres. The instrumentality lone applies successful areas already zoned for multifamily housing.