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type: "Bill"
title: "Division of community property: pet animals."
description: "Existing law generally requires a court in a judgment of dissolution of marriage or judgment of legal separation of the parties to make a property division that equally divides the community estate of the parties, except as otherwise specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2274"
citation: "California AB 2274 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Division of community property: pet animals."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-02-13"
last_action: "2018-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50831540-c354-407c-8e1e-83d3e1964f88"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2274"
source_hash: "f6172faea481b2b72a747407b524cd26d205f3116f9e610024074c624e26cc1b"
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 2274 (20172018) — Division of community property: pet animals.
Existing law generally requires a court in a judgment of dissolution of marriage or judgment of legal separation of the parties to make a property division that equally divides the community estate of the parties, except as otherwise specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/13/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2274&version=20170AB227499INT)
2. **04/02/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2274&version=20170AB227498AMD)
3. **04/05/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2274&version=20170AB227497AMD)
4. **05/10/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2274&version=20170AB227496AMD)
5. **09/27/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2274&version=20170AB227494CHP)
6. **AB2274** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2274)
7. **08/16/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2274&version=20170AB227495ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended. — **71** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **61** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2274 Quirk By Jackson — **343** (pass) · upper
- AB 2274 QUIRK Assembly Third Reading — **574** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Quirk — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2018-03-01** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** 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`
- **2018-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-04** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-04-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-10** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5094.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 4. Page 5203.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 3. Page 5336.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-16** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2018-08-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 820, Statutes of 2018.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50831540-c354-407c-8e1e-83d3e1964f88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).