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Committee advances bill allowing limited geofencing and tightening rental‑car key rules to curb organized theft
Summary
AB 1197 would permit geofencing to locate rental vehicles in limited circumstances and adjusts liability presumptions tied to returned keys. The committee approved the bill as amended after debate on privacy, consumer protections and enforcement mechanics.
Assemblymember Calderon’s AB 1197, aimed at discouraging organized rental‑car theft and clarifying rental‑company recovery tools, advanced from the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee with committee amendments limiting location‑tracking tools to geofencing in narrow scenarios.
Calderon told the committee rental vehicles are frequent targets of theft and abandonment and said the bill would allow geofencing to detect movement outside the country when unauthorized and to locate…
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