AB 2676: 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.

This bill would extend the operation of the requirements to furnish the additional application information and to pay the additional annual fee to January 1, 2024. By extending the collection of a fee deposited in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes by deleting obsolete provisions.