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type: "Bill"
title: "Vicious dogs: definition."
description: "Existing law provides for the designation and disposition of certain categories of dogs as potentially dangerous or vicious dogs pursuant to a specified judicial process, and requires that designation to be included in the registration records of the dog. Existing law defines the term \"vicious dog\" to include, among others, dogs seized pursuant to specified animal cruelty laws."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1825"
citation: "California AB 1825 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vicious dogs: definition."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gordon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2016-02-08"
last_action: "2016-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51a41741-e43e-43f1-9708-76321b2ac0d6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1825"
source_hash: "4b658cf18d24113823ce45382ce97b94a0c1f934265dc6efa1b420be61351181"
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 1825 (20152016) — Vicious dogs: definition.
Existing law provides for the designation and disposition of certain categories of dogs as potentially dangerous or vicious dogs pursuant to a specified judicial process, and requires that designation to be included in the registration records of the dog. Existing law defines the term "vicious dog" to include, among others, dogs seized pursuant to specified animal cruelty laws.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/08/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1825&version=20150AB182599INT)
2. **07/25/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1825&version=20150AB182597CHP)
3. **AB1825** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1825)
4. **07/07/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1825&version=20150AB182598ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 1825 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — **750** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **90** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1825 Gordon By Leno — **352** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Gordon — primary (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Atkins — coauthor (person)
- Baker — coauthor (person)
- Block — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Chang — coauthor (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Hadley — coauthor (person)
- Hill — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Kim — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Linder — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — author (person)
- Mark Stone — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Pan — coauthor (person)
- Quirk — coauthor (person)
- Steinorth — coauthor (person)
- Williams — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
- **2016-02-25** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4719.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-19** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 4656.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-30** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2016-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2016-07-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-07-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 97, Statutes of 2016.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/51a41741-e43e-43f1-9708-76321b2ac0d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).