---
type: "Bill"
title: "Weights and measures: electric vehicle chargers."
description: "Existing law regulates advertising that indicates the price of motor vehicle fuel, including electricity sold as a motor vehicle fuel. Existing law requires a county sealer to enforce the advertising requirements. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2037"
citation: "California AB 2037 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Weights and measures", "electric vehicle chargers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Papan"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-02-01"
last_action: "2024-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7fcf6c4e-703c-4201-a9f9-2b925239eb2e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2037"
source_hash: "bcacc950ca345b5e2dd2438a79018ffd2756b9e184fa7da713eaedf91460adc1"
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 2037 (20232024) — Weights and measures: electric vehicle chargers.

Existing law regulates advertising that indicates the price of motor vehicle fuel, including electricity sold as a motor vehicle fuel. Existing law requires a county sealer to enforce the advertising requirements. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a crime.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/01/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2037&version=20230AB203799INT)
2. **03/06/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2037&version=20230AB203798AMD)
3. **03/14/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2037&version=20230AB203797AMD)
4. **06/04/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2037&version=20230AB203796AMD)
5. **06/26/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2037&version=20230AB203795AMD)
6. **08/20/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2037&version=20230AB203794AMD)
7. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2037&version=20230AB203792CHP)
8. **AB2037** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2037)
9. **08/29/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2037&version=20230AB203793ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2037 Papan Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2037 Papan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2037 Papan et al. By Becker — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Papan — primary (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-01** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-02** From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
- **2024-02-12** Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 12). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-14** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5031.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-08** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E. D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-18** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2024-06-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-05** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2024-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 692, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7fcf6c4e-703c-4201-a9f9-2b925239eb2e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).