California Assembly Bill AB2258 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2258INTRODUCED 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.