---
type: "Bill"
title: "Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous material."
description: "Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous material."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 844"
citation: "California AB 844 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous material."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Berryhill"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 36
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2007-02-22"
last_action: "2008-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d28dfb3-dcdd-4aaa-b664-61c733d83aeb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844"
source_hash: "86e207c19ed279159f19ec9b2e45765493ad54a0a5fe5da892bb160290246b08"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 844 (20072008) — Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous material.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/22/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844&version=20070AB84499INT)
2. **04/09/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844&version=20070AB84498AMD)
3. **04/30/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844&version=20070AB84493AMD)
4. **05/01/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844&version=20070AB84497AMD)
5. **05/29/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844&version=20070AB84492AMD)
6. **06/01/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844&version=20070AB84496AMD)
7. **06/19/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844&version=20070AB84495AMD)
8. **06/19/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844&version=20070AB84491AMD)
9. **06/25/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844&version=20070AB84490AMD)
10. **06/26/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844&version=20070AB84494AMD)
11. **08/11/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844&version=20070AB84489AMD)
12. **08/19/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844&version=20070AB84488AMD)
13. **09/30/08 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844&version=20070AB84486CHP)
14. **AB844** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844)
15. **09/03/08 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB844&version=20070AB84487ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Set, first hearing. Failed passage in Committee. Reconsideration granted. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 844 BERRYHILL Concurrence- Urgency Added — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 844 BERRYHILL Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Rules. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration granted. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality. — **fail** (fail) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB844 Berryhill Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Berryhill — primary (person)
- Adams — coauthor (person)
- Aghazarian — coauthor (person)
- Anderson — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Benoit — coauthor (person)
- Blakeslee — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — principal coauthor (person)
- Cedillo — coauthor (person)
- Cogdill — principal coauthor (person)
- Cook — coauthor (person)
- DeVore — coauthor (person)
- Denham — coauthor (person)
- Emmerson — coauthor (person)
- Florez — coauthor (person)
- Fuller — coauthor (person)
- Gaines — coauthor (person)
- Galgiani — principal coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Garrick — principal coauthor (person)
- Horton — coauthor (person)
- Houston — coauthor (person)
- Huff — coauthor (person)
- Jeffries — coauthor (person)
- Keene — coauthor (person)
- La Malfa — coauthor (person)
- Ma — coauthor (person)
- Maldonado — principal coauthor (person)
- Margett — coauthor (person)
- Maze — author (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Nakanishi — coauthor (person)
- Niello — coauthor (person)
- Parra — coauthor (person)
- Plescia — coauthor (person)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- Sharon Runner — coauthor (person)
- Silva — coauthor (person)
- Smyth — coauthor (person)
- Spitzer — coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Tran — coauthor (person)
- Villines — coauthor (person)
- Walters — coauthor (person)
- Yee — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2007-02-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2007-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2007-04-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-10** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-30** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 24). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2007-05-01** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2007-05-02** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2007-06-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 31). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2007-06-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-06-05** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1945.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-06-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-06-14** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development and Standing Committee on Environmental Quality. `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2007-06-25** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2007-06-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-02** In committee: Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
- **2007-07-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2008-04-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2008-05-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2008-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2008-06-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Environmental Quality Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2008-06-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Environmental Quality. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2008-07-14** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Rules Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2008-08-04** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2008-08-07** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) . `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2008-08-11** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2008-08-18** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2008-08-19** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2008-08-20** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 1. Page 5216.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2008-08-28** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6888.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2008-09-18** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2008-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2008-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 731, Statutes of 2008.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7d28dfb3-dcdd-4aaa-b664-61c733d83aeb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).