---
type: "Bill"
title: "Witness testimony: therapy and facility dogs."
description: "Existing law authorizes a prosecuting witness in specified cases to have up to 2 persons of his or her own choosing for support at the preliminary hearing and at trial, or at a juvenile court proceeding, during the testimony of the prosecuting witness, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 411"
citation: "California AB 411 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Witness testimony: therapy and facility dogs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bloom"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-09"
last_action: "2017-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72d1b7df-9c8d-4e48-88b7-3ed68f442f8a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB411"
source_hash: "47eaf84ede7079d431548714dcb6b37eb6ab7d1939dd629f2479b1f1dc98eb98"
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 411 (20172018) — Witness testimony: therapy and facility dogs.

Existing law authorizes a prosecuting witness in specified cases to have up to 2 persons of his or her own choosing for support at the preliminary hearing and at trial, or at a juvenile court proceeding, during the testimony of the prosecuting witness, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/09/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB411&version=20170AB41199INT)
2. **03/08/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB411&version=20170AB41198AMD)
3. **04/20/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB411&version=20170AB41197AMD)
4. **06/20/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB411&version=20170AB41196AMD)
5. **07/06/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB411&version=20170AB41195AMD)
6. **09/26/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB411&version=20170AB41193CHP)
7. **AB411** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB411)
8. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB411&version=20170AB41194ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB411 Bloom et al. By Mitchell — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 411 BLOOM Assembly Third Reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 411 BLOOM Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bloom — primary (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-10** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
- **2017-02-21** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-09** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1124.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-04-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1260.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-06-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-06** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-07-11** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2017-07-13** Ordered to third reading.
- **2017-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2681.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-09-13** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Page 3254.)
- **2017-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3284.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2017-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 290, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72d1b7df-9c8d-4e48-88b7-3ed68f442f8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).