BILL NUMBER: AB 1518	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 10, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Perea
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Conway, Gordon, and Morrell)
   (Coauthor: Senator La Malfa)

                        JANUARY 17, 2012

   An act to add Section 12737 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to weighmasters.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1518, as amended, Perea. 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. 
   This bill would authorize any weighmaster weighing any vehicle
moving construction materials, including, but not limited to, earth,
stone, rock, sand, gravel, limestone, ready mixed concrete,
cementitious materials, recycled construction materials, or asphalt
paving materials to use an unattended weighing system to weigh the
vehicle and to issue a weighmaster certificate to buyers who opt to
utilize the unattended system, as provided. The bill would define an
unattended weighing system as an automated system not directly under
the supervision of a weighmaster that meets the approval, testing,
and sealing requirements specified in existing law. The bill would
state that it would not impact existing weighing and ticketing
systems.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 12737 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   12737.  (a) Any weighmaster weighing any vehicle moving
construction materials, including, but not limited to, earth, stone,
rock, sand, gravel, limestone, ready mixed concrete, cementitious
materials, recycled construction materials, or asphalt paving
materials may use an unattended weighing system to weigh the vehicle
and to issue a weighmaster certificate to buyers who opt to utilize
the unattended system  , provided that the system and the
operation of the system comply with regulations or policies issued by
the secretary  . The name of the principal weighmaster and the
unique system identification number of the unattended weighing system
utilized shall be imprinted on the weighmaster certificate and this
shall satisfy the requirements of subdivision (c) of Section 12715.
Nothing in this section impacts existing weighing and ticketing
systems.
   (b) For purposes of this section:
   (1) "Principal weighmaster" means the person or entity identified
on the weighmaster certificate, as described in subdivision (b) of
Section 12714, that may employ or designate any person to act for the
weighmaster as a deputy weighmaster pursuant to Section 12710.
   (2) "Unattended weighing system" means an automated system not
directly under the supervision of a weighmaster that meets the
approval, testing, and sealing requirements of Section 12717.