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type: "Bill"
title: "Animal impoundment."
description: "Existing law governs the seizure, rescue, adopting out, and euthanasia of abandoned and surrendered animals by animal control officers, law enforcement officers, animal shelters, and rescue organizations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1553"
citation: "California AB 1553 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Animal impoundment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fong"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9541387d-b6c9-47ea-bfb1-b8a506b529af"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1553"
source_hash: "2b491637220ea14a1b31a3ce37c2a84cea440033525491cc3d465b8990d8054a"
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 1553 (20192020) — Animal impoundment.
Existing law governs the seizure, rescue, adopting out, and euthanasia of abandoned and surrendered animals by animal control officers, law enforcement officers, animal shelters, and rescue organizations.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1553&version=20190AB155399INT)
2. **06/12/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1553&version=20190AB155397CHP)
3. **AB1553** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1553)
4. **06/07/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1553&version=20190AB155398ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **90** (pass) · upper
- AB 1553 Fong Consent Calendar Second Day — **760** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **190** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB1553 Fong et al. — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Fong — primary (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1473.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-04** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-06-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1450.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-06-06** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2019-06-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 7, Statutes of 2019.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9541387d-b6c9-47ea-bfb1-b8a506b529af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).