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Bill	Veterinarians: cruelty incidents.	Under existing law, the Veterinary Medicine Practice Act, the Veterinary Medical Board licenses and regulates veterinarians and the practice of veterinary medicine. It is unlawful for any person to practice veterinary medicine in this state unless he or she holds a valid, unexpired, and unrevoked license issued by the board, except under specified circumstances, including when regularly licensed veterinarians are actually called from other states to attend cases in this state and do not open an office or appoint a place to do business within the state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 316	California AB 316 (20152016)	bill	Veterinarians: cruelty incidents.	enacted	Maienschein	8	27	8	2015-02-13	2015-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/600d3b07-39a0-483e-8b37-e478eff383b4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB316	c4aa82bd3a6da47b84850cb272efde21154f6f5cb4ffdfc23d7fe53f18eaa1bd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 316 (20152016) — Veterinarians: cruelty incidents.

Under existing law, the Veterinary Medicine Practice Act, the Veterinary Medical Board licenses and regulates veterinarians and the practice of veterinary medicine. It is unlawful for any person to practice veterinary medicine in this state unless he or she holds a valid, unexpired, and unrevoked license issued by the board, except under specified circumstances, including when regularly licensed veterinarians are actually called from other states to attend cases in this state and do not open an office or appoint a place to do business within the state.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/07/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB316 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/08/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 316 MAIENSCHEIN Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 316 MAIENSCHEIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB316 Maienschein By Galgiani — 36–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-23 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-05-06 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-14 From Consent Calendar.
• 2015-05-14 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-05-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1489.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-28 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2015-06-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-31 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 2. Page 2406.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-09-03 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2859.)
• 2015-09-03 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2867.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 556, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/600d3b07-39a0-483e-8b37-e478eff383b4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).