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Bill	Animal parts and products: importation or sale of ivory and rhinoceros horn.	Existing law makes it a crime to import into the state for commercial purposes, to possess with intent to sell, or to sell within the state, the dead body, or any part or product thereof, of an elephant. Existing law exempts the possession with intent to sell, or sale of the dead body, or any part or product thereof, of any elephant before June 1, 1977, or the possession with intent to sell or the sale of any such item on or after June 1, 1977, if the item was imported before January 1, 1977.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 96	California AB 96 (20152016)	bill	Animal parts and products: importation or sale of ivory and rhinoceros horn.	enacted	Atkins	5	21	8	2015-01-07	2015-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/dded16e3-5b82-4d43-9771-133296470c50	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB96	66a93e081e68d2de0b50017b09c1dab69320a7dd5f4fc91f3479876a12511f2d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 96 (20152016) — Animal parts and products: importation or sale of ivory and rhinoceros horn.

Existing law makes it a crime to import into the state for commercial purposes, to possess with intent to sell, or to sell within the state, the dead body, or any part or product thereof, of an elephant. Existing law exempts the possession with intent to sell, or sale of the dead body, or any part or product thereof, of any elephant before June 1, 1977, or the possession with intent to sell or the sale of any such item on or after June 1, 1977, if the item was imported before January 1, 1977.

Version chain

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

1. 01/07/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/17/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/04/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB96 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/09/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 96 ATKINS Assembly Third Reading — 62–14 (pass) · lower
• AB 96 ATKINS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 54–21 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB96 Atkins By Lara — 26–13 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Atkins — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Dababneh — coauthor (person)
• Gatto — coauthor (person)
• Hancock — coauthor (person)
• Lara — principal coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Pan — coauthor (person)
• Pavley — coauthor (person)
• Rendon — coauthor (person)
• Thurmond — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)
• Waldron — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-01-08 From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
• 2015-01-26 Referred to Com. on W., P., & W. referral-committee
• 2015-03-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (March 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-03-25 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 14. Page 1776.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-11 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2015-06-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 2394.). 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.
• 2015-09-04 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 21. Page 2907.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 475, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dded16e3-5b82-4d43-9771-133296470c50. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).