Existing law provides for the licensure of weighmasters who weigh, measure, or count any commodity and issue a statement or memorandum that is used as the basis for either the purchase or sale of that commodity. Existing law requires that a weighmaster issue a signed weighmaster certificate whenever payment for the commodity is dependent on a written or printed weight, measure, or count. Under existing law, the Secretary of Food and Agriculture may adopt rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary for the purpose of carrying out provisions of law related to weighmasters. Existing law requires a weighmaster to pay to the Department of Food and Agriculture various license fees, including a $75 fee if the weighmaster is operating at a fixed location and a $200 fee if the weighmaster is operating at other than a fixed location.
California AB 1518 (20112012) — Weighmasters: automated weighing systems.
Existing law provides for the licensure of weighmasters who weigh, measure, or count any commodity and issue a statement or memorandum that is used as the basis for either the purchase or sale of that commodity. Existing law requires that a weighmaster issue a signed weighmaster certificate whenever payment for the commodity is dependent on a written or printed weight, measure, or count. Under existing law, the Secretary of Food and Agriculture may adopt rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary for the purpose of carrying out provisions of law related to weighmasters. Existing law requires a weighmaster to pay to the Department of Food and Agriculture various license fees, including a $75 fee if the weighmaster is operating at a fixed location and a $200 fee if the weighmaster is operating at other than a fixed location.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2012-01-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2012-01-18 From printer. May be heard in committee February 17.
2012-01-26 Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
2012-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
2012-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
2012-03-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2012-04-10 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
2012-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2012-04-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2012-05-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2012-05-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
2012-05-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2012-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 21. Page 5101.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
2012-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2012-06-14 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
2012-06-25 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. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2012-07-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2012-07-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2012-08-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 1. Page 4440.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
2012-08-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2012-08-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 16. Page 5884.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2012-08-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
2012-09-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2012-09-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 344, Statutes of 2012.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/57718c3f-18ad-4c34-ab91-142970cc26f5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).