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Bill	Weights and measures.	Existing law makes it a crime for a person, firm, corporation, or association to advertise, solicit, or represent by any means a product for sale or purchase if it is intended to entice a consumer into a transaction different from that originally represented. When the sale of any commodity is based upon a quantity representation either furnished by the purchaser or obtained through the use of equipment supplied by the purchaser, the purchaser is prohibited from buying the commodity according to any quantity which is less than the true quantity. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1181	California AB 1181 (20112012)	bill	Weights and measures.	enacted	Butler	9	47	7	2011-02-18	2012-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/0062db73-3336-460c-96cf-7a385d4307fc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1181	05cd63c46d0550775ff3dedf4db2a1a65b7504d5dddecee5e5b0301d1beacdfd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1181 (20112012) — Weights and measures.

Existing law makes it a crime for a person, firm, corporation, or association to advertise, solicit, or represent by any means a product for sale or purchase if it is intended to entice a consumer into a transaction different from that originally represented. When the sale of any commodity is based upon a quantity representation either furnished by the purchaser or obtained through the use of equipment supplied by the purchaser, the purchaser is prohibited from buying the commodity according to any quantity which is less than the true quantity. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/10/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/21/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/31/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/27/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1181 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1181 Butler By Corbett — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1181 BUTLER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1181 Butler By Negrete McLeod — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1181 BUTLER Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Butler — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2011-03-17 Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2011-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-04 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-05-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-11 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-05-18 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1565.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2011-06-20 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-11 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2011-07-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1963.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-18 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-08-22 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2011-08-22 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2011-09-08 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. reading-3, passage
• 2011-09-08 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Correa.
• 2012-05-25 From inactive file.
• 2012-05-25 Ordered to second reading.
• 2012-05-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-31 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-06-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-06-04 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). referral-committee
• 2012-06-14 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2012-08-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-27 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2012-08-27 Ordered to second reading.
• 2012-08-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-31 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2012-08-31 (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 5066.)
• 2012-08-31 Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 5066.)
• 2012-08-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-31 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2012-08-31 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-31 (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 5077.)
• 2012-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 5077.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2012-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6775.)
• 2012-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 2. Page 6781.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
• 2012-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 662, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0062db73-3336-460c-96cf-7a385d4307fc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).