republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-2505.md

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Bill	Animals: euthanasia.	Existing law prohibits a person from killing an animal by using carbon monoxide gas or intracardiac injection of a euthanasia agent on a conscious animal, except as specified. With respect to the killing of a dog or cat, existing law prohibits a person from using a high-altitude decompression chamber or nitrogen gas. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2505	California AB 2505 (20152016)	bill	Animals: euthanasia.	enacted	Quirk	4	19	5	2016-02-19	2016-07-25	openstates	ocd-bill/a741028d-2c15-4216-9ca1-3d37f5203276	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2505	8eeeb41b6d12ce07ddf78a66d03628df9f08c3e37a6280e9a91420a15ac2d82b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2505 (20152016) — Animals: euthanasia.

Existing law prohibits a person from killing an animal by using carbon monoxide gas or intracardiac injection of a euthanasia agent on a conscious animal, except as specified. With respect to the killing of a dog or cat, existing law prohibits a person from using a high-altitude decompression chamber or nitrogen gas. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/25/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB2505 (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/07/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2505 QUIRK Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Quirk — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-08 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-03-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4464.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-05 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-05-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-27 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2016-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4651.). 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 105, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a741028d-2c15-4216-9ca1-3d37f5203276. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).