---
type: "Bill"
title: "Horses: show, competition, and sale events: fees: registration."
description: "Existing law regulates horse events, such as shows, competitions, and sales, and the drugging of horses. A violation of these provisions is a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2270"
citation: "California AB 2270 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Horses: show", "competition", "and sale events: fees: registration."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Agriculture"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2010-02-18"
last_action: "2010-08-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7808e0b8-9750-4bde-875c-6513d489e9f4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2270"
source_hash: "bfdb8975ac0a204cd3420b7d1f886bc491199a2bb1196f52979e41d3145dc572"
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 2270 (20092010) — Horses: show, competition, and sale events: fees: registration.

Existing law regulates horse events, such as shows, competitions, and sales, and the drugging of horses. A violation of these provisions is a crime.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2270&version=20090AB227099INT)
2. **08/13/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2270&version=20090AB227097CHP)
3. **AB2270** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2270)
4. **08/04/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2270&version=20090AB227098ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2270 Committee on AGRI. (Galgiani) — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2270 AGRI. Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Agriculture — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2010-03-11** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-25** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-15** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-22** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4820.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** Referred to Com. on F. & A. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-15** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-29** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2010-06-30** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-02** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4309.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-02** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2010-08-06** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
- **2010-08-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-08-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 137, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7808e0b8-9750-4bde-875c-6513d489e9f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).