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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Emotional support animals."
+description: "Existing law regulates the sale of dogs and cats. Existing law also makes a person who knowingly and fraudulently represents, through verbal or written notice, the person to be the owner or trainer of a canine licensed as, to be qualified as, or identified as, a guide, signal, or service dog, as defined, guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 6 months, by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "AB 468"
+citation: "California AB 468 (20212022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Emotional support animals."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Friedman"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2021-02-08"
+last_action: "2021-09-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/951ccbd1-ce1a-40f3-9cba-c3b96dea306d"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB468"
+source_hash: "8a9b1d4b1fdd0131a5282499f2fff9ec6da5d22de5d9d933658b779c3a8f01ca"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 468 (20212022) — Emotional support animals.
+
+Existing law regulates the sale of dogs and cats. Existing law also makes a person who knowingly and fraudulently represents, through verbal or written notice, the person to be the owner or trainer of a canine licensed as, to be qualified as, or identified as, a guide, signal, or service dog, as defined, guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 6 months, by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/08/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB468&version=20210AB46899INT)
+2. **03/22/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB468&version=20210AB46898AMD)
+3. **04/06/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB468&version=20210AB46897AMD)
+4. **06/08/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB468&version=20210AB46896AMD)
+5. **07/01/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB468&version=20210AB46895AMD)
+6. **07/15/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB468&version=20210AB46894AMD)
+7. **09/16/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB468&version=20210AB46892CHP)
+8. **AB468** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB468)
+9. **09/03/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB468&version=20210AB46893ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 468 Friedman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **18–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 468 Friedman Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading AB468 Friedman et al. By Bates — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Friedman — primary (person)
+- Archuleta — coauthor (person)
+- Bates — coauthor (person)
+- Jones — coauthor (person)
+- Newman — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
+- **2021-02-18** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and B. & P. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-03-23** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-23** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2021-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-05-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1408.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-05-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2021-05-27** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-08** 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, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-14** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2021-06-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-07-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-07-14** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 13). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2021-07-15** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-08-16** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2021-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2220.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2021-09-01** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 2625.)
+- **2021-09-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2642.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
+- **2021-09-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-09-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 168, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/951ccbd1-ce1a-40f3-9cba-c3b96dea306d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+