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type: "Bill"
title: "Animal shelters: adoption application: crimes."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2774"
citation: "California AB 2774 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Animal shelters: adoption application: crimes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Limón"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-02-16"
last_action: "2018-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0128c5c2-9868-4bd8-af0c-cfb737668fa0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2774"
source_hash: "b9fdd9918c644dd26f2744ca689246bb015ea72cb3112f20b961aa9f5a084398"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2774&version=20170AB277499INT)
2. **03/22/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2774&version=20170AB277498AMD)
3. **04/12/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2774&version=20170AB277497AMD)
4. **05/03/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2774&version=20170AB277496AMD)
5. **06/06/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2774&version=20170AB277495AMD)
6. **09/28/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2774&version=20170AB277493CHP)
7. **AB2774** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2774)
8. **09/04/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2774&version=20170AB277494ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **70** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB2774 — **360** (pass) · upper
- AB 2774 LIMÓN Consent Calendar Second Day — **750** (pass) · lower
- AB 2774 LIMÓN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **790** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0128c5c2-9868-4bd8-af0c-cfb737668fa0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).