---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pet stores."
description: "Existing law establishes the Pet Store Animal Care Act, which regulates the care and maintenance of animals in the custody of a pet store, and provides limits on the sale or transfer of those animals. A violation of the act is punishable as a misdemeanor. The act defines a pet store as any retail establishment open to the public and selling, or offering for sale, animals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 490"
citation: "California AB 490 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pet stores."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smyth"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2009-02-24"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc15950d-c19b-4e98-aabb-fe9bc46a4b02"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB490"
source_hash: "4edbf998889bcfe593b775b12dd3f17b94a78fcc8621292ab1e9458a634db99d"
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 490 (20092010) — Pet stores.

Existing law establishes the Pet Store Animal Care Act, which regulates the care and maintenance of animals in the custody of a pet store, and provides limits on the sale or transfer of those animals. A violation of the act is punishable as a misdemeanor. The act defines a pet store as any retail establishment open to the public and selling, or offering for sale, animals.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB490&version=20090AB49099INT)
2. **03/23/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB490&version=20090AB49098AMD)
3. **05/04/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB490&version=20090AB49097AMD)
4. **07/09/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB490&version=20090AB49096AMD)
5. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB490&version=20090AB49094CHP)
6. **AB490** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB490)
7. **09/03/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB490&version=20090AB49095ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Agriculture. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 490 SMYTH Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #16 AB490 Smyth By Strickland — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 490 SMYTH Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Smyth — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2009-03-12** Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-03-24** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-31** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 31). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-04** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1624.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-04** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2009-07-08** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-09** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-18** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2009-08-19** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-24** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-08-27** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1977.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-08-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-09-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2844.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-08** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 446, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc15950d-c19b-4e98-aabb-fe9bc46a4b02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).