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type: "Bill"
title: "Public Resources."
description: "(1) Existing law governs weights and measures in this state, and authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to enforce those provisions, as specified. Existing law requires the secretary to adopt all necessary regulations governing the inspection frequency of all commercially used weights, measures, and weighing and measuring apparatus. Existing law provides that fees collected pursuant to this provision shall be credited to the General Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 120"
citation: "California AB 120 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Public Resources."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2011-01-10"
last_action: "2011-07-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51e2bb35-b7e8-416b-a859-6937559e079c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB120"
source_hash: "814aa38edb5b91769bceeb8bb41afef51d969799a899ec6106c7f83c1e49af3d"
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 120 (20112012) — Public Resources.
(1) Existing law governs weights and measures in this state, and authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to enforce those provisions, as specified. Existing law requires the secretary to adopt all necessary regulations governing the inspection frequency of all commercially used weights, measures, and weighing and measuring apparatus. Existing law provides that fees collected pursuant to this provision shall be credited to the General Fund.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/10/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB120&version=20110AB12099INT)
2. **06/08/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB120&version=20110AB12098AMD)
3. **07/26/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB120&version=20110AB12096CHP)
4. **AB120** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB120)
5. **07/12/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB120&version=20110AB12097ENR)
## Votes
- AB 120 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD — **490** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB120 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) By Leno — **2213** (pass) · upper
- AB 120 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BLUMENFIELD — **5226** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Committee on Budget — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2011-01-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-01-11** From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
- **2011-02-18** Without reference to committee. `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-02-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 0. Page 423.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-02-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-03-07** Ordered to second reading.
- **2011-03-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-08** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-10** Pursuant to Joint Rule 33.1, Joint Rule 10.5 suspended by unanimous consent.
- **2011-06-10** (Page 1369.)
- **2011-06-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 1373.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-06-15** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 26. Page 1956.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-07-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:15 p.m.
- **2011-07-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-07-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 133, Statutes of 2011.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/51e2bb35-b7e8-416b-a859-6937559e079c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).