CA AB 498
enactedSelf-service storage facilities: lien notices: email.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 498 pass?
Yes. CA AB 498 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-06. Latest recorded action (2025-10-06): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 369, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 498 about?
Existing law, the California Self-Storage Facility Act, authorizes a self-storage facility owner to terminate the right of an occupant to the use of a storage space if rent or other charges due remain unpaid for 14 consecutive days by sending a lien notice and the total sum due has not been paid by the termination date specified in the preliminary lien notice, in accordance with specified procedures. Existing law authorizes an owner to send lien notices to the occupant by email if the rental agreement states that lien notices may be sent by email and the occupant provides a written signature on the rental agreement consenting to receive lien notices by email. Existing law specifies the ways an owner may demonstrate actual delivery and receipt of the lien notices sent by email, including by posting the document on the owner's secure internet website and there is evidence demonstrating that the occupant logged onto the licensee's secure internet website and downloaded, printed, viewed, or otherwise acknowledged receipt of the document. This bill, instead, would provide that an owner may demonstrate actual delivery and receipt of a lien notice by delivering the document to the occupant's email address and there is evidence demonstrating that the occupant downloaded, printed, viewed, opened, or otherwise acknowledged receipt of the document.
Who sponsors CA AB 498?
Michelle Rodriguez is the primary sponsor of CA AB 498.
Description
Existing law, the California Self-Storage Facility Act, authorizes a self-storage facility owner to terminate the right of an occupant to the use of a storage space if rent or other charges due remain unpaid for 14 consecutive days by sending a lien notice and the total sum due has not been paid by the termination date specified in the preliminary lien notice, in accordance with specified procedures. Existing law authorizes an owner to send lien notices to the occupant by email if the rental agreement states that lien notices may be sent by email and the occupant provides a written signature on the rental agreement consenting to receive lien notices by email. Existing law specifies the ways an owner may demonstrate actual delivery and receipt of the lien notices sent by email, including by posting the document on the owner's secure internet website and there is evidence demonstrating that the occupant logged onto the licensee's secure internet website and downloaded, printed, viewed, or otherwise acknowledged receipt of the document. This bill, instead, would provide that an owner may demonstrate actual delivery and receipt of a lien notice by delivering the document to the occupant's email address and there is evidence demonstrating that the occupant downloaded, printed, viewed, opened, or otherwise acknowledged receipt of the document.
- Introduced
- 2025-03-17
- Latest action
- 2025-10-06 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 369, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Michelle Rodriguezauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-10
Read first time. To print.
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2025-02-11
From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
2025-02-24
Referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee
2025-03-17
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended.
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2025-03-18
Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee
2025-03-26
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 25).
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2025-03-27
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-04-01
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.)
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2025-04-02
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-07
Referred to Com. on JUD.
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2025-07-08
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-07-16
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 15).
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2025-07-17
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-08-25
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2249.).
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2025-08-26
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
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2025-09-02
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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2025-10-06
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-06
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 369, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-03-25 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (12)
- Zbur: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Essayli: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Papan: yes
- Bryan: yes
AB 498 Michelle Rodriguez Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-04-01 · pass · 76-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Haney: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Chen: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Papan: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Fong: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Lee: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Bains: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Ta: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Hart: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Soria: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Addis: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Essayli: yes
- Flora: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Ward: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Berman: yes
- Davies: other
- Alvarez: other
- Bennett: other
- Wicks: other
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar
2025-07-15 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Caballero: yes
- Niello: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Laird: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Stern: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Allen: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
Consent Calendar 2nd AB498 Michelle Rodriguez
2025-08-25 · pass · 37-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Reyes: yes
- Allen: yes
- Jones: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Niello: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Grove: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Choi: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Limón: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Becker: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Hurtado: other
- Alvarado-Gil: other
- Rubio: other
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