California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2633: Secondhand dealers.
Status: Chaptered, September 27, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Sections 21625, 21626, 21627, 21628, 21629, 21630, 21631, 21636, 21636.1, 21636.5, 21637, and 21638 of, and to repeal Section 21634 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to secondhand dealers. secondhand dealers Secondhand dealers…
From the chaptered text, September 27, 2026:
An act to amend Sections 21625, 21626, 21627, 21628, 21629, 21630, 21631, 21636, 21636.1, 21636.5, 21637, and 21638 of, and to repeal Section 21634 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to secondhand dealers. secondhand dealers Secondhand dealers. 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” …
Sponsors
- Mike Gipson (D, AD65) · primary sponsor
- Jessica Caloza (D, AD52)
Latest actions
- : Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 631, Statutes of 2026.
- : Approved by the Governor.
- : Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- : Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6883.).
- : Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0.).
- : Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
- : In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- : Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.).
- : Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
- : Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Votes
- AB 2633 Gipson Concurrence in Senate Amendments (August 30, 2026): 79 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2633 Gipson et al. By Archuleta (August 27, 2026): 40 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Do pass (August 13, 2026): 7 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Placed on suspense file (June 29, 2026): 7 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (June 15, 2026): 11 yea, 0 nay, passed
- AB 2633 Gipson Assembly Third Reading (May 26, 2026): 78 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is AB2633?
- AB2633 is a bill in the California Legislature (2025-2026 Regular Session): Secondhand dealers.
- What does AB2633 do?
- In its own words: An act to amend Sections 21625, 21626, 21627, 21628, 21629, 21630, 21631, 21636, 21636.1, 21636.5, 21637, and 21638 of, and to repeal Section 21634 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to secondhand dealers. secondhand dealers Secondhand dealers…
- What is the status of AB2633?
- Chaptered as of September 27, 2026. Latest action: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 631, Statutes of 2026. (September 27, 2026).
- Who sponsored AB2633?
- Mike Gipson (D, AD65), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for AB2633?
- On the California Legislature website: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2633
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