republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-3252.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Animal health."
description: "(1) Existing law requires any person that has the care or control of any animal that dies from any contagious disease to immediately cremate or bury the animal. Existing law prohibits the transport of any animal that has died from any contagious disease, except as specified. Existing law makes it unlawful for any person to knowingly sell, use, expose, or fail to immediately kill any horse, mule, or other animal that has the diseases dourine, glanders, or farcy after the person is notified of the disease by a licensed veterinarian or the Department of Food and Agriculture."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 3252"
citation: "California AB 3252 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Animal health."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Agriculture"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-03-05"
last_action: "2018-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b13074ae-49a5-493e-83b1-64756b8d0005"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3252"
source_hash: "14d9fbf0ee9260bfe5426ab2554d70436d6a10144384dd82de0254c4e36d130d"
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 3252 (20172018) — Animal health.

(1) Existing law requires any person that has the care or control of any animal that dies from any contagious disease to immediately cremate or bury the animal. Existing law prohibits the transport of any animal that has died from any contagious disease, except as specified. Existing law makes it unlawful for any person to knowingly sell, use, expose, or fail to immediately kill any horse, mule, or other animal that has the diseases dourine, glanders, or farcy after the person is notified of the disease by a licensed veterinarian or the Department of Food and Agriculture.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/05/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3252&version=20170AB325299INT)
2. **06/11/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3252&version=20170AB325298AMD)
3. **09/06/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3252&version=20170AB325296CHP)
4. **AB3252** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3252)
5. **08/22/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3252&version=20170AB325297ENR)

## Votes

- AB 3252 AGRI. Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 3252 AGRI. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By CABALLERO — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB3252 AGRI. — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Agriculture — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-03-06** From printer. May be heard in committee April 5.
- **2018-03-22** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5219.) `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 AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-07-02** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5168.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-09** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-15** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 15). `committee-passage`
- **2018-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6380.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 289, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b13074ae-49a5-493e-83b1-64756b8d0005`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).