republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-2774.md

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Bill	Animal shelters: adoption application: crimes.	Existing law prohibits a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor violation of specified animal cruelty provisions, within 5 years after the conviction, from owning, possessing, maintaining, having custody of, residing with, or caring for any animal. Existing law prohibits a person who has been convicted of a felony for animal cruelty or animal fighting, as specified, within 10 years after the conviction, from owning, possessing, maintaining, having custody of, residing with, or caring for any animal.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2774	California AB 2774 (20172018)	bill	Animal shelters: adoption application: crimes.	enacted	Limón	8	27	5	2018-02-16	2018-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/0128c5c2-9868-4bd8-af0c-cfb737668fa0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2774	b9fdd9918c644dd26f2744ca689246bb015ea72cb3112f20b961aa9f5a084398	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2774 (20172018) — Animal shelters: adoption application: crimes.

Existing law prohibits a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor violation of specified animal cruelty provisions, within 5 years after the conviction, from owning, possessing, maintaining, having custody of, residing with, or caring for any animal. Existing law prohibits a person who has been convicted of a felony for animal cruelty or animal fighting, as specified, within 10 years after the conviction, from owning, possessing, maintaining, having custody of, residing with, or caring for any animal.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/03/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/06/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2774 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB2774 — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2774 LIMÓN Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2774 LIMÓN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Limón — primary (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Low — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-03-22 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-03-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-04-17 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-18 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4828.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-05-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-06-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-06-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4878.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-07-02 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2018-07-02 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2018-08-27 Ordered to the Assembly.
• 2018-08-27 In Assembly.
• 2018-08-27 Ordered to the unfinished business file.
• 2018-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6872.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 877, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0128c5c2-9868-4bd8-af0c-cfb737668fa0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).