Privacy: lodging and common carriers: state emergencies: Disaster Response-Emergency Operations Account.

(1) Existing law prohibits specified entities that offer lodging, or any employee or agent thereof, from disclosing, producing, providing, releasing, transferring, disseminating, or otherwise communicating all or any part of a guest record, as defined, orally, in writing, or by electronic or any other means to a 3rd party, other than a California peace officer, without a court-issued subpoena, warrant, or order, as specified. Existing law also prohibits an owner or operator of a private or charter bus transportation company, or any employee or agent thereof, from disclosing, producing, providing, releasing, transferring, disseminating, or otherwise communicating all or any part of a passenger manifest, as defined, orally, in writing, or by electronic or any other means to a 3rd party, other than a California peace officer, without a court-issued subpoena, warrant, or order, as specified. This bill would prohibit these provisions from being construed to prevent a government entity from requiring a private business to provide business records in an investigation, as specified. (2) Under existing law, there is a continuously appropriated special reserve fund named the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties in the State Treasury. Under existing law, moneys in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties are appropriated by the Director of Finance for the purpose of allocating funds for disaster relief, as specified, 30 days after notification in writing of the necessity therefor is provided to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. This bill would establish the Disaster Response-Emergency Operations Account in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties and continuously appropriate its revenue for allocation by the Director of Finance to state agencies for disaster response operation costs incurred as a result of a proclamation by the Governor of a state of emergency. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.