2025 Regular Session SB 470 Enrolled

• Bill Title: Relating to recordings of occupants of transient lodging; and prescribing an effective date.

Catchline/Summary

Digest: Lets a person sue if someone makes, stores or shows a visual image or recording of the person while the person is in private space in a hotel or like place. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).

[Digest: Tells a person that offers, in return for money, a space for others to stay for a short time, and any other person that assists the person to offer the space, that they may not make, store, show or give to another person an audio or video record of a person that stays in the space. Allows the person that stays in the space to sue for violations of the law. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.4).]

[Prohibits a transient lodging provider and a transient lodging intermediary from making, storing, transmitting or transferring an audio or video recording of an occupant of transient lodging in any space within the transient lodging in which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Punishes violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.]

Provides a cause of action for invasion of personal privacy against a transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's capturing, making, storing, transferring, transmitting or broadcasting, or intentionally permitting another person to make, store, transfer, transmit or broadcast, a visual image or recording or audio of a plaintiff while the plaintiff occupies a private space within transient lodging that is under the transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's ownership or control.

Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

• Chapter Number: Chapter 289
• Fiscal Impact: Has Minimal Fiscal Impact
• Revenue Impact: Has Minimal Revenue Impact
• Current Location: Chapter Number Assigned