---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vector control."
description: "(1) Existing law requires a person who possesses a place that is infested with rodents to immediately proceed and continue in good faith to exterminate and destroy the rodents. Existing law authorizes the State Department of Public Health, a county board of supervisors, or a governing board of a city to take specified actions, including purchasing poison, traps, and other materials, for the purpose of exterminating and destroying rodents."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 1167"
citation: "California SB 1167 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vector control."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hueso"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2014-02-20"
last_action: "2014-07-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3062c889-50a0-4efb-81af-3edcc8afcf60"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1167"
source_hash: "4cb387f4664154097f6ddb4779dd0e6e7c6892b43bffc96c4532b907f0263c23"
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 SB 1167 (20132014) — Vector control.

(1) Existing law requires a person who possesses a place that is infested with rodents to immediately proceed and continue in good faith to exterminate and destroy the rodents. Existing law authorizes the State Department of Public Health, a county board of supervisors, or a governing board of a city to take specified actions, including purchasing poison, traps, and other materials, for the purpose of exterminating and destroying rodents.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1167&version=20130SB116799INT)
2. **03/26/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1167&version=20130SB116798AMD)
3. **07/07/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1167&version=20130SB116796CHP)
4. **SB1167** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1167)
5. **06/26/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1167&version=20130SB116797ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent #12 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 1167 Hueso Senate Third Reading By CHAU — **74–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hueso — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-20** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2014-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- **2014-03-06** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-07** Set for hearing April 1.
- **2014-03-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-04-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3038.) (April 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2014-04-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3242.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-04-24** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-02** Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2014-06-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5703.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-06-26** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2014-06-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-07-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 81, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3062c889-50a0-4efb-81af-3edcc8afcf60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).