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Bill	Pet stores.	Existing law establishes the Pet Store Animal Care Act, which regulates the care and maintenance of animals in the custody of a pet store, and provides limits on the sale or transfer of those animals. A violation of the act is punishable as a misdemeanor. The act defines a pet store as any retail establishment open to the public and selling, or offering for sale, animals.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 490	California AB 490 (20092010)	bill	Pet stores.	enacted	Smyth	7	25	7	2009-02-24	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/bc15950d-c19b-4e98-aabb-fe9bc46a4b02	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB490	4edbf998889bcfe593b775b12dd3f17b94a78fcc8621292ab1e9458a634db99d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 490 (20092010) — Pet stores.

Existing law establishes the Pet Store Animal Care Act, which regulates the care and maintenance of animals in the custody of a pet store, and provides limits on the sale or transfer of those animals. A violation of the act is punishable as a misdemeanor. The act defines a pet store as any retail establishment open to the public and selling, or offering for sale, animals.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/04/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/09/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB490 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Agriculture. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 490 SMYTH Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #16 AB490 Smyth By Strickland — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 490 SMYTH Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Smyth — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-24 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-25 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2009-03-12 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and AGRI. referral-committee
• 2009-03-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-03-24 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2009-03-31 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 31). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-05-04 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-05-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-18 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-21 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1624.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-04 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2009-07-08 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-07-09 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-18 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2009-08-19 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-24 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-08-27 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1977.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-01 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2844.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-08 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 446, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bc15950d-c19b-4e98-aabb-fe9bc46a4b02. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).