---
type: "Bill"
title: "Horses: test verification, horse shows, competitions, and sales."
description: "(1) Existing law requires any horse or other Equidae brought into this state to be accompanied by a certificate of health and verification that the horse or Equidae has been tested within the preceding 6 months and found negative to a test for equine infectious anemia, except as otherwise specified. A violation of those provisions is a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1388"
citation: "California AB 1388 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Horses: test verification", "horse shows", "competitions", "and sales."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Agriculture"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2013-03-04"
last_action: "2013-08-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc798ad2-2012-4631-be93-6e2bc597900b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1388"
source_hash: "dee4dba0ea72a9a5c2f84de8dfa1fd5813ee66fb18278b9fd8759d777f0af875"
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 1388 (20132014) — Horses: test verification, horse shows, competitions, and sales.

(1) Existing law requires any horse or other Equidae brought into this state to be accompanied by a certificate of health and verification that the horse or Equidae has been tested within the preceding 6 months and found negative to a test for equine infectious anemia, except as otherwise specified. A violation of those provisions is a crime.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/04/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1388&version=20130AB138899INT)
2. **04/15/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1388&version=20130AB138898AMD)
3. **04/24/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1388&version=20130AB138897AMD)
4. **08/16/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1388&version=20130AB138895CHP)
5. **AB1388** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1388)
6. **08/08/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1388&version=20130AB138896ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1388 Committee on AGRI. — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1388 AGRI. Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **3–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Agriculture — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-03-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-03-05** From printer. May be heard in committee April 4.
- **2013-03-14** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-16** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1578.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-06** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-07-01** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2013-07-02** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-07-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 1700.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-05** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2013-08-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:40 p.m.
- **2013-08-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-08-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 116, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc798ad2-2012-4631-be93-6e2bc597900b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).