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ASSEMBLY BILL 2732 (CORBETT – 2002)
CHAPTER 818, STATUTES OF 2002, AB 2732
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As enacted, Assembly Bill 2732 added Business and Professions Code sections 13300 through 13302 only, relating to automatic checkout systems. (See Exhibit #1g) Assembly member Carl Washington introduced Assembly Bill 2732 on February 22, 2002 at the request of Los Angeles County. (See Exhibits #1a and #3, page 3)
Assembly Bill 2732 was assigned to the Assembly Committee on Judiciary and the Senate Committee on Judiciary where policy issues raised by the bill were considered. (See Exhibits #3 and #6) Five amendments were made to Assembly Bill 2732. (See Exhibits #1b through #1f and #2) Subsequent to legislative approval, Governor Gray Davis signed the bill on Gray Davis, and it was recorded by the Secretary of State on + as Chapter 818 of the Statutes of 2002. (See Exhibits #1g and #2)
The provisions of Assembly Bill 2732 as last amended are summarized in the Third Reading analysis prepared by the Office of Senate Floor Analyses as follows:
This bill requires that any business establishment that uses an automatic checkout system to use a system that conspicuously displays the price to be paid by the consumer. The bill also requires that such systems display, at least once, all price reductions, surcharges, taxes, and the total amount for each transaction prior to payment by the consumer.
Senate Floor Amendments of 8/22/02 correct an inadvertent problem arising from the fact that the effective date of the bill is later than the sunset date of the enforcement provision it references.
(See Exhibit #7c)