Vehicle license fees.

Existing law requires a passenger vehicle rental company to only advertise a rental rate that includes the entire amount, except certain taxes and charges. Existing law authorizes the rental company, when providing a quote or imposing charges for a rental, to separately state the certain taxes and charges. Existing law prohibits a rental company from charging in addition to the rental rate and certain taxes and charges, any fee that must be paid by the renter as a condition of hiring or leasing the vehicle other than customer facility charges and airport concession fees. Existing law also requires the rental company, if customer facility charges, airport concession fees, or tourism commission assessments are imposed, to provide the person receiving the quote with a good faith estimate of the rental rate and certain taxes and charges when the quote is given, to clearly and conspicuously disclose in the rental contract the total rate and certain taxes and charges when the rental commences, and to provide each person, other than those persons within the rental company, offering quotes to actual or prospective customers access to information about certain taxes and charges. This bill would, notwithstanding those provisions, include the increased vehicle license fee, as defined, among those specified taxes and charges. This bill would become operative only if SB 3 or AB 3 of the 2009–10 3rd Extraordinary Session of the Legislature is enacted and increases the vehicle license fee above 0.65% of the value of the vehicle and shall cease to become operative upon restoration of the vehicle license fee to no more than 0.65% of the value of the vehicle.