It was postponed until November 1, 2004.

http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Electronics/Act2003/Retailer/Fee/

In typical bureaucratic (holy hell, how does anyone learn English?) fashion, they didn’t specify some minor points in the new law. Just minor things really, like, oh, how do we collect it:

There are many details yet to be resolved regarding this fee, including:

• How should the retailer track its collection?


• What State agency receives the collected fees?


• What is the process to remit the collected fees?

And we pay these guys for this.