Bill Text: CA AB2721 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Unfair Competition Law: hotels.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8)
Status: (Engrossed) 2026-06-22 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. [AB2721 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2721
| Introduced by Assembly Member Carrillo (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Gipson) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Ávila Farías, Mark González, Haney, Lee, Lowenthal, and Solache) |
February 20, 2026 |
An act to add Section 17211 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to business.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2721, as amended, Carrillo.
Unfair Competition Law: hotels.
Existing law, the Unfair Competition Law (UCL), makes various practices unlawful and provides that a person who engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition is liable for a civil penalty and subject to injunction, as specified. The UCL authorizes actions prosecuted under its provisions to be brought by certain public attorneys, including by the Attorney General, a city attorney of a city having a population in excess of 750,000, or by a county counsel of any county within which a city has a population in excess of 750,000. The UCL prohibits the distribution, as provided, of any handbill, as defined, to any individual guest rooms in any hotel where the innkeeper has expressed objection to handbill distribution, as specified. The UCL provides that these provisions do not prohibit the distribution of a handbill to guest rooms in any hotel where the distribution has
been requested or approved in writing by the innkeeper, or to any individual guest room when the occupant thereof has affirmatively requested or approved the distribution of the handbill during the duration of the guest’s occupancy.
This bill would require, under the UCL, the operator of a hotel to disclose the existence of any reservations that the operator knows, or should know, the hotel has with actual knowledge of a reservation with the United States Customs and Border Protection or United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement by posting to post a prescribed notice in a
prominent and accessible place on the premises of the hotel that is prominently displayed to both workers and guests. where it can be seen by all workers and guests.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 17211 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:17211.
(a) An operator of a hotel with actual knowledge of a reservation with the United States Customs and Border Protection or United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement on its premises shall, no later than the time of arrival of an employee of that federal entity, post a notice in a prominent and accessible place where it can be seen by all workers and guests that discloses the potential presence of the United States Customs and Border Protection or United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement on its premises.(b) The operator shall ensure that the notice remains prominently displayed for the duration of the reservation.
(c) An operator who has established a protocol to
comply with this section in good faith shall be found in compliance with this section.
(d) The hotel and its operator shall not be liable for loss of life, injuries, violations, penalties, liabilities, or any damages that might occur pursuant to compliance with the requirements of this section.
(e) This section does not impose any duty on an operator of a hotel to seek information.
(f) A violation of this section shall be deemed engaging in unfair competition for purposes of this chapter.
(g) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Hotel” has the same meaning as Section 17210.
(2) “Operator” means
a person who, at a minimum, meets both of the following criteria:
(A) The person is employed directly by the hotel owner or an entity charged with overseeing the day-to-day operations of the hotel.
(B) The person is classified as a “manager” by title and works 40 or more hours per week at the hotel.
(a)An operator of a hotel shall disclose the existence of any reservations that the operator knows, or should know, the hotel has with the United States Customs and Border Protection or United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement by posting a notice in a place on the premises of the hotel that is prominently displayed to both workers and guests.
(b)(1)Except as provided in paragraph (2), the operator shall ensure that the notice is
posted at least one week before the start of the reservation.
(2)If the reservation is created within one week of the start date of the reservation, the operator shall ensure that the notice is posted as soon as practicable.
(c)The operator shall ensure that the notice remains prominently displayed for the duration of the reservation.
(d) The operator shall ensure that the notice clearly and conspicuously identifies the agency that has a reservation and the length of the reservation.
(e)For purposes of this section, “hotel” has the same meaning as defined in Section 17210.
