---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public transit operators: passengers with pets: evacuation orders."
description: "Existing law imposes various requirements on transit operators. Existing law prohibits a person from doing any of specified acts with respect to the property, facilities, or vehicles of a transit district, including, among other things, interfering with the operator or operation of a transit vehicle, or impeding the safe boarding or alighting of passengers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 397"
citation: "California SB 397 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public transit operators: passengers with pets: evacuation orders."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Glazer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-20"
last_action: "2019-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f287383-4bfc-4685-8469-e80454b0956c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB397"
source_hash: "c3cbb92e48fca510164a795ff7506ccd81157356cbfea2cc04e359754c8d4190"
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 397 (20192020) — Public transit operators: passengers with pets: evacuation orders.

Existing law imposes various requirements on transit operators. Existing law prohibits a person from doing any of specified acts with respect to the property, facilities, or vehicles of a transit district, including, among other things, interfering with the operator or operation of a transit vehicle, or impeding the safe boarding or alighting of passengers.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB397&version=20190SB39799INT)
2. **06/17/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB397&version=20190SB39798AMD)
3. **10/09/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB397&version=20190SB39796CHP)
4. **SB397** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB397)
5. **09/12/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB397&version=20190SB39797ENR)

## Votes

- SB 397 Glazer Senate Third Reading By Smith — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB397 Glazer Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Glazer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-20** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** Set for hearing April 23.
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 805.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-26** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2019-05-06** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-13** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1029.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-13** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-30** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3171.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-09-10** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2019-09-10** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2786.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-17** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2019-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 702, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f287383-4bfc-4685-8469-e80454b0956c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).