republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-236.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Weighmasters: exemptions: pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers."
description: "Existing law requires a person who weighs, measures, or counts a commodity and issues a statement or memorandum of the weight, measure, or count that is used as the basis for either the purchase or sale of that commodity or charge for service, to obtain a license as a weighmaster from the Department of Food and Agriculture, and imposes a license fee and various other requirements on weighmasters. Existing law exempts specified persons from those provisions by establishing a list of persons who are not weighmasters. Existing law, until January 1, 2019, requires the department to require a recycler or junk dealer who is an applicant for a new weighmaster license or a renewal of a weighmaster license to furnish specified additional information on the application."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 236"
citation: "California AB 236 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Weighmasters: exemptions: pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lackey"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2015-02-05"
last_action: "2015-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f2017d5-1501-426d-89c5-5d3b2abf3d92"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB236"
source_hash: "ddd97acfceceb228fb1029e65e2272a10773060c9bdef6367c4074ba57739d05"
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 236 (20152016) — Weighmasters: exemptions: pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers.

Existing law requires a person who weighs, measures, or counts a commodity and issues a statement or memorandum of the weight, measure, or count that is used as the basis for either the purchase or sale of that commodity or charge for service, to obtain a license as a weighmaster from the Department of Food and Agriculture, and imposes a license fee and various other requirements on weighmasters. Existing law exempts specified persons from those provisions by establishing a list of persons who are not weighmasters. Existing law, until January 1, 2019, requires the department to require a recycler or junk dealer who is an applicant for a new weighmaster license or a renewal of a weighmaster license to furnish specified additional information on the application.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/05/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB236&version=20150AB23699INT)
2. **04/15/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB236&version=20150AB23698AMD)
3. **07/15/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB236&version=20150AB23696CHP)
4. **AB236** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB236)
5. **07/07/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB236&version=20150AB23697ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 236 LACKEY Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lackey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-06** From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
- **2015-02-17** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1447.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-29** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2015-06-30** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1755.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-02** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-07-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2015-07-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 103, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f2017d5-1501-426d-89c5-5d3b2abf3d92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).