TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Executive Office
MEETING DATE: May 19, 2026
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Xuyen Mallela
PHONE:
707-463-4441
ITEM TYPE: Consent Agenda
TIME ALLOCATED FOR ITEM: N/A
AGENDA TITLE:
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Ratification of Letter of Opposition for SB 1327 (Reyes): Weights and Measures
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RECOMMENDED ACTION/MOTION:
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Ratify letter of opposition for SB 1327 (Reyes): Weights and Measures.
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PREVIOUS BOARD/BOARD COMMITTEE ACTIONS:
The Board of Supervisors regularly issues support letters that align with the 2026 Legislative Platform.
SUMMARY OF REQUEST:
SB 1337 (Reyes) seeks to remove electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) (a commercial weighing and measuring device) from the regulatory jurisdiction of the county sealer of weights and measures.
County sealers of weights and measures already operate a robust, comprehensive, and statewide uniform program to ensure the accuracy of all commercial weighing and measuring devices, including EVSE. This long-standing system, administered under the authority of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), provides consistent standards, type evaluation, inspection, testing, and enforcement across all counties. County sealers perform initial and then ongoing, regular tests on any device used commercially to calculate a price for a commodity. This includes gas pumps, grocery scales and utility submeters, among many other types of devices. The county sealers operate as a neutral, third-party regulator to ensure that consumers get what they paid for, and to ensure equity and fair competition between operators selling like products.
SB 1327 will unnecessarily shift regulatory authority over EVSE to the California Energy Commission, an agency that does not administer or enforce weights and measures laws. In doing so, the bill fragments an established system that is already functioning effectively and removes these emerging devices from the oversight of the regulatory prog...
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