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Bill	Local government liability: dog parks.	Existing law governs the tort liability and immunity of, and claims and actions against, a public entity, including, but not limited to, a city, county, city and county, district, and any other political subdivision. Existing law makes the owner of any dog civilly liable for the damages suffered by any person who is bitten by the dog while in a public place or lawfully in a private place, as specified, regardless of the former viciousness of the dog or the owner's knowledge of such viciousness.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 265	California AB 265 (20132014)	bill	Local government liability: dog parks.	enacted	Gatto	7	25	6	2013-02-07	2013-08-12	openstates	ocd-bill/dc425c04-8fff-40d8-8797-a437b10cf9f9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB265	46bf36aec69f2e0f6d231d55717c7acdd9c937754989c1cb33653bb399560f00	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 265 (20132014) — Local government liability: dog parks.

Existing law governs the tort liability and immunity of, and claims and actions against, a public entity, including, but not limited to, a city, county, city and county, district, and any other political subdivision. Existing law makes the owner of any dog civilly liable for the damages suffered by any person who is bitten by the dog while in a public place or lawfully in a private place, as specified, regardless of the former viciousness of the dog or the owner's knowledge of such viciousness.

Version chain

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

1. 02/07/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/12/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/29/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/10/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/12/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB265 (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/01/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 265 GATTO Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 265 GATTO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gatto — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-08 From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
• 2013-02-21 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-03-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-03-13 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2013-05-09 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-16 From consent calendar.
• 2013-05-16 Ordered to third reading.
• 2013-05-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1519.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-06-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-06-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-18 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-06-19 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-06-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1489.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-06-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-06-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2193.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:45 p.m.
• 2013-08-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-08-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 74, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dc425c04-8fff-40d8-8797-a437b10cf9f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).