---
type: "Bill"
title: "Animals: mischievous: great bodily injury."
description: "Animals: mischievous: great bodily injury."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 1709"
citation: "California AB 1709 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Animals: mischievous: great bodily injury."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Migden"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2001-03-07"
last_action: "2001-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/642f401d-4426-436d-bb67-6dbe9722ae8b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1709"
source_hash: "10cbd27dde53df78db3331695e6677689d8dc0c62f549fe563b4d01c836b75ca"
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 1709 (20012002) — Animals: mischievous: great bodily injury.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **03/07/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1709&version=20010AB170999INT)
2. **06/26/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1709&version=20010AB170998AMD)
3. **07/17/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1709&version=20010AB170997AMD)
4. **09/05/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1709&version=20010AB170995CHP)
5. **AB1709** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1709)
6. **08/20/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1709&version=20010AB170996ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent #23 AB1709 Migden — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1709 Migden Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1709 Migden Concurrence in Senate Amendments Urgency Added — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Migden — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2001-09-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 257, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-09-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-08-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2001-08-20** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3080.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2001-07-21** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2177.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-07-17** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-09** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2001-06-26** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2001-06-25** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-31** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-17** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1690.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-14** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-10** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-04-25** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2001-03-21** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-08** From printer. May be heard in committee April 7.
- **2001-03-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/642f401d-4426-436d-bb67-6dbe9722ae8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).