SB 52 (Pérez D) Housing rental rates and occupancy levels: algorithmic devices.

Current Text: Amended: 7/17/2025
Last Amend: 7/17/2025
Status: 7/17/2025-Assembly Rule 63 suspended. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer
to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (July 16). Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on
APPR.
Location: 7/16/2025-A. APPR.
Summary: Would make it unlawful for any person to sell, license, or otherwise provide to 2 or more
persons a rental pricing algorithm, as defined, with the intent or reasonable expectation that it be
used by 2 or more persons, as specified, to set rental terms, as defined, for residential premises. The
bill would make it unlawful for a person to set or adopt rental terms based on the recommendation of
a rental pricing algorithm if the person knows or should know that the rental pricing algorithm
processes nonpublic competitor data, as defined, to set rental terms and that the pricing algorithm or
the recommendation of the algorithm was used by another person to set or recommend a rental term
for residential premises in the same market.