---
type: "Bill"
title: "Animal shelters: research animals: prohibitions."
description: "(1) Existing law requires a pound or animal regulation department of a public or private agency where animals are turned over dead or alive to a biological supply facility or a research facility to post a statement to this effect, as specified, and requires that this statement and other information also be included on owner surrender forms."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2269"
citation: "California AB 2269 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Animal shelters: research animals: prohibitions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waldron"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2016-02-18"
last_action: "2016-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94f1d4df-c425-4da6-b934-48a99419b0a5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2269"
source_hash: "4d9154a7b9f149c32f7e288b055d47568b73aa1c9e85ab7ecb22a5b75f7d06c2"
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 2269 (20152016) — Animal shelters: research animals: prohibitions.

(1) Existing law requires a pound or animal regulation department of a public or private agency where animals are turned over dead or alive to a biological supply facility or a research facility to post a statement to this effect, as specified, and requires that this statement and other information also be included on owner surrender forms.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2269&version=20150AB226999INT)
2. **03/30/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2269&version=20150AB226998AMD)
3. **04/21/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2269&version=20150AB226997AMD)
4. **08/02/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2269&version=20150AB226996AMD)
5. **09/24/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2269&version=20150AB226994CHP)
6. **AB2269** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2269)
7. **08/25/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2269&version=20150AB226995ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2269 Waldron By Monning — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2269 WALDRON Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2269 WALDRON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Waldron — primary (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Chang — coauthor (person)
- Chávez — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Dababneh — principal coauthor (person)
- Daly — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2016-03-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 29). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-03-30** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-03-31** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-14** From Consent Calendar.
- **2016-04-14** Ordered to third reading.
- **2016-04-21** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4455.) `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4498.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-08-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-02** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-08** Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5025.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6113.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 568, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/94f1d4df-c425-4da6-b934-48a99419b0a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).