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Bill	Weighmasters: junk dealers and recyclers: licenses: additional application information and fee.	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 an annual license fee and various other requirements on weighmasters. Existing law, until January 1, 2019, requires 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, and requires a weighmaster who is a junk dealer or recycler to pay an additional annual fee of $500 to the department for each location at which the weighmaster operates, as specified. Existing law provides for license fees collected pursuant to these provisions to be deposited in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund and continuously appropriated for the administration and enforcement of these provisions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2676	California AB 2676 (20172018)	bill appropriation	Weighmasters: junk dealers and recyclers: licenses: additional application information and fee.	enacted	Gipson	5	21	6	2018-02-15	2018-09-14	openstates	ocd-bill/e53777cd-8f92-4ad7-a416-6c78fed0a1bb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2676	bafe193606c6a9020c3500d183a95f419636e162db9a568d1f4b6bd0099ddda6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2676 (20172018) — Weighmasters: junk dealers and recyclers: licenses: additional application information and fee.

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 an annual license fee and various other requirements on weighmasters. Existing law, until January 1, 2019, requires 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, and requires a weighmaster who is a junk dealer or recycler to pay an additional annual fee of $500 to the department for each location at which the weighmaster operates, as specified. Existing law provides for license fees collected pursuant to these provisions to be deposited in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund and continuously appropriated for the administration and enforcement of these provisions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/14/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2676 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2676 GIPSON Assembly Third Reading — 76–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2676 Gipson By Galgiani — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2018-03-08 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2018-04-04 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-05 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 5487.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-07 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5290.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-14 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2018-08-17 Enrolled measure version corrected.
• 2018-08-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2018-09-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 392, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e53777cd-8f92-4ad7-a416-6c78fed0a1bb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).