BILL NUMBER: AB 2258	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ammiano

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 12313 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to uniform weights and measures.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2258, as introduced, Ammiano. Weights and measures.
   Existing law requires that contracts made within this state for
work to be done or for anything to be sold or delivered by weight or
measure be construed according to the common standards, or according
to the weights and measures of the metric system authorized by
Congress, as the contract provides. Existing law provides that the
definitions of basic units of weight and measure, and the tables of
weight and measure and weights and measures equivalents, as published
by the National Bureau of Standards are recognized and shall govern
weighing and measuring equipment and transactions in this state.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the
latter provision by instead referring to the National Institute of
Standards and Technology, the successor to the National Bureau of
Standards.
   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 12313 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   12313.  The definitions of basic units of weight and measure, and
the tables of weight and measure and weights and measures
equivalents, as published by the  National Bureau of
Standards     National Institute of Standards
and Technology  are recognized and shall govern weighing and
measuring equipment and transactions in this state.