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Bill	Sales of dogs and cats: contracts.	Existing law generally regulates formation and enforcement of contracts, including what constitutes an unlawful contract. Under existing law, a contract is unlawful if it is contrary to an express provision of law, contrary to the policy of express law, though not expressly prohibited, or otherwise contrary to good morals. Existing law, the Unruh Act, provides for the regulation of retail installment contracts, as defined. Existing law, the Karnette Rental-Purchase Act, provides for the regulation of rental-purchase agreements, as defined.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1491	California AB 1491 (20172018)	bill	Sales of dogs and cats: contracts.	enacted	Caballero	8	23	6	2017-02-17	2017-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/be5690c2-5fc8-44ed-b3a9-a71604462f58	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1491	ef55f30b0f69c35200b612abb04f5fd55840799badf0ec2c267d4e0997f205fb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1491 (20172018) — Sales of dogs and cats: contracts.

Existing law generally regulates formation and enforcement of contracts, including what constitutes an unlawful contract. Under existing law, a contract is unlawful if it is contrary to an express provision of law, contrary to the policy of express law, though not expressly prohibited, or otherwise contrary to good morals. Existing law, the Unruh Act, provides for the regulation of retail installment contracts, as defined. Existing law, the Karnette Rental-Purchase Act, provides for the regulation of rental-purchase agreements, as defined.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/22/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/13/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1491 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/07/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1491 Caballero et al. By Atkins — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1491 CABALLERO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 63–10 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 10–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1491 CABALLERO Assembly Third Reading — 63–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Steinorth — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2017-03-16 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 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
• 2017-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-04-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-04-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 10. Page 1470.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-24 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-03 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-07-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2343.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-05 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 63. Noes 10. Page 2936.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 761, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/be5690c2-5fc8-44ed-b3a9-a71604462f58. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).