CA AB 2633
enactedSecondhand dealers.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did CA AB 2633 pass?
Yes. CA AB 2633 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2026-09-27): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 631, Statutes of 2026.
What is CA AB 2633 about?
Existing law imposes upon secondhand dealers and coin dealers a uniform, statewide, state-administered program of regulation of persons whose principal business is buying, selling, trading, auctioning, or taking in pawn tangible personal property, as defined, and requires a secondhand dealer or coin dealer to report secondhand tangible personal property that they acquire, except as specified, to the California Pawn and SecondhandDealer System (CAPSS) operated by the Department of Justice, as specified. Existing law defines "tangible personal property" for these purposes to include, among other things, all tangible personal property that the Attorney General statistically determines through the most recent Department of Justice crime data to constitute a significant class of stolen goods. Existing law further defines "significant class of stolen goods" to mean those items determined through the Department of Justice's most recent OpenJustice Web portal update to constitute more than 10% of property reported stolen in the calendar year preceding the annual posting of the list of significant classes of stolen goods. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor, as specified. This bill would remove the term "principal" from the provisions that regulate secondhand dealers, making them applicable, instead, to persons whose business is buying, selling, trading, auctioning, or taking in pawn tangible personal property. By expanding the persons subject to the reporting requirement, the violation of which is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make the above-described provisions inapplicable to coin dealers and make other related and conforming changes. The bill would make the provisions that regulate secondhand dealers inapplicable to tangible personal property that has been acquired from a nonprofit organization or as a bulk purchase of donated items. The bill would also delete the definition of a "significant class of stolen goods," thereby potentially expanding the definition of "tangible personal property." By expanding the items subject to the reporting requirement, the violation of which is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires the chief of police, sheriff, or police commission to accept an application for licensure and to grant a license to a qualified applicant, as specified. Existing law requires the licensing authority to submit the application to the Department of Justice before granting the license. If the Department of Justice does not comment on the application within 30 days after the submission, existing law authorizes the licensing authority to grant the applicant a license. This bill would prohibit a city, county, city and county, or any other state agency from issuing a license or permit to allow any entity to conduct business as a secondhand dealer without the entity having a state secondhand dealer license issued pursuant to the provisions described above. The bill would reiterate that any person conducting business as a secondhand dealer is required to report secondhand tangible personal property that they acquire to the CAPSS operated by the Department of Justice, as specified. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Who sponsors CA AB 2633?
Gipson is the primary sponsor of CA AB 2633, joined by 1 cosponsor.
Description
Existing law imposes upon secondhand dealers and coin dealers a uniform, statewide, state-administered program of regulation of persons whose principal business is buying, selling, trading, auctioning, or taking in pawn tangible personal property, as defined, and requires a secondhand dealer or coin dealer to report secondhand tangible personal property that they acquire, except as specified, to the California Pawn and SecondhandDealer System (CAPSS) operated by the Department of Justice, as specified. Existing law defines "tangible personal property" for these purposes to include, among other things, all tangible personal property that the Attorney General statistically determines through the most recent Department of Justice crime data to constitute a significant class of stolen goods. Existing law further defines "significant class of stolen goods" to mean those items determined through the Department of Justice's most recent OpenJustice Web portal update to constitute more than 10% of property reported stolen in the calendar year preceding the annual posting of the list of significant classes of stolen goods. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor, as specified. This bill would remove the term "principal" from the provisions that regulate secondhand dealers, making them applicable, instead, to persons whose business is buying, selling, trading, auctioning, or taking in pawn tangible personal property. By expanding the persons subject to the reporting requirement, the violation of which is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make the above-described provisions inapplicable to coin dealers and make other related and conforming changes. The bill would make the provisions that regulate secondhand dealers inapplicable to tangible personal property that has been acquired from a nonprofit organization or as a bulk purchase of donated items. The bill would also delete the definition of a "significant class of stolen goods," thereby potentially expanding the definition of "tangible personal property." By expanding the items subject to the reporting requirement, the violation of which is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires the chief of police, sheriff, or police commission to accept an application for licensure and to grant a license to a qualified applicant, as specified. Existing law requires the licensing authority to submit the application to the Department of Justice before granting the license. If the Department of Justice does not comment on the application within 30 days after the submission, existing law authorizes the licensing authority to grant the applicant a license. This bill would prohibit a city, county, city and county, or any other state agency from issuing a license or permit to allow any entity to conduct business as a secondhand dealer without the entity having a state secondhand dealer license issued pursuant to the provisions described above. The bill would reiterate that any person conducting business as a secondhand dealer is required to report secondhand tangible personal property that they acquire to the CAPSS operated by the Department of Justice, as specified. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
- Introduced
- 2026-05-14
- Latest action
- 2026-09-27 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 631, Statutes of 2026.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Gipsonauthor
- Calozacoauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2026-09-27
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 631, Statutes of 2026.
became-law
2026-09-27
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2026-09-10
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
executive-receipt
2026-08-30
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
2026-08-30
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-08-30
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6883.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-08-28
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2026-08-27
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-08-24
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-08-21
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-08-19
Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-3
2026-08-19
From special consent calendar.
2026-08-18
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2026-08-13
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 13).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-08-13
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-06-29
In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2026-06-15
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-06-11
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2026-06-10
Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
referral-committee
2026-05-27
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2026-05-26
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-05-26
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5388.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-05-19
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-05-18
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2026-05-14
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 14).
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage
2026-04-29
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2026-04-07
Coauthors revised.
2026-04-07
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-03-09
Referred to Com. on B. & P.
referral-committee
2026-02-21
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-02-20
Read first time. To print.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-04-07 · pass · 19-0
Member-level votes (19)
- Elhawary: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Bains: yes
- Chen: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Berman: yes
- Haney: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Hart: yes
Do pass as amended.
2026-05-14 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Tangipa: other
- Ta: other
- Dixon: other
- Hoover: other
AB 2633 Gipson Assembly Third Reading
2026-05-27 · pass · 78-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Ellis: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Lee: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Fong: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Papan: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Haney: yes
- Chen: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Berman: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Flora: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Davies: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ward: yes
- Patel: yes
- Hart: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Ta: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Soria: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Krell: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Bains: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Addis: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-06-15 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Strickland: yes
- Choi: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Niello: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Caballero: yes
Placed on suspense file
2026-06-29 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Cervantes: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
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