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Bill	Seized and abandoned animals: full costs: forfeiture.	Existing law provides that the cost of seizing, caring for, and treating any stray, abandoned, or endangered animal seized pursuant to specified provisions regarding the failure to care for animals, or pursuant to a search warrant, shall constitute a lien on the animal and that the animal shall not be returned to its owner until the charges are paid. Existing law provides that, if these charges are not paid within 14 days of the seizure, or if an owner fails to pay charges permitted, as specified, and take possession of the animal within 14 days of notice of availability of the animal to be returned, the animal shall be deemed to have been abandoned and may be disposed of by the impounding officer.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 1500	California SB 1500 (20112012)	bill	Seized and abandoned animals: full costs: forfeiture.	enacted	Lieu	11	38	6	2012-02-24	2012-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/e297f66a-77b2-4871-87d3-818050dfcef9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1500	5539770620faa985b46197c54124dc485ab2ff6acd8ef701825be87dfa7ea9b5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1500 (20112012) — Seized and abandoned animals: full costs: forfeiture.

Existing law provides that the cost of seizing, caring for, and treating any stray, abandoned, or endangered animal seized pursuant to specified provisions regarding the failure to care for animals, or pursuant to a search warrant, shall constitute a lien on the animal and that the animal shall not be returned to its owner until the charges are paid. Existing law provides that, if these charges are not paid within 14 days of the seizure, or if an owner fails to pay charges permitted, as specified, and take possession of the animal within 14 days of notice of availability of the animal to be returned, the animal shall be deemed to have been abandoned and may be disposed of by the impounding officer.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/15/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/23/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/13/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/26/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/06/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/23/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/26/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. SB1500 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/05/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1500 Lieu Senate Third Reading By PAN — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB1500 Lieu Concurrence — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1500 Lieu Senate Third Reading By PAN — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lieu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-22 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-03-28 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2012-04-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3210.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-27 Set for hearing May 7.
• 2012-05-02 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-05-04 Set for hearing May 14.
• 2012-05-09 Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-05-11 Set for hearing May 21.
• 2012-05-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-05-22 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3641.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-06-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-06 Read third time and amended. (Page 5761.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5895.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-14 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-21 Ordered to the Assembly.
• 2012-08-21 In Assembly. Held at Desk.
• 2012-08-22 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage
• 2012-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-23 Read third time and amended. (Page 6171.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6356.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 5021.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2012-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 598, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e297f66a-77b2-4871-87d3-818050dfcef9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).