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Bill	Guide, signal, and service dogs: injury or death.	Under existing law, it is an infraction or a misdemeanor for a person to permit a dog that is owned, harbored, or controlled by the person to cause injury to, or the death of, a guide, signal, or service dog, as defined, while the guide, signal, or service dog is in discharge of its duties. Existing law makes a person who intentionally causes injury to, or the death of, a guide, signal, or service dog, while the dog is in discharge of its duties, guilty of a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 169	California AB 169 (20192020)	bill	Guide signal and service dogs: injury or death.	enacted	Lackey	7	25	8	2019-01-08	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/899e7909-a967-498b-a925-a676c338045f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB169	29292016cbe424a4f78bdd850aef3f18d5cc096145a9fb13c36212f3ef64e1a5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 169 (20192020) — Guide, signal, and service dogs: injury or death.

Under existing law, it is an infraction or a misdemeanor for a person to permit a dog that is owned, harbored, or controlled by the person to cause injury to, or the death of, a guide, signal, or service dog, as defined, while the guide, signal, or service dog is in discharge of its duties. Existing law makes a person who intentionally causes injury to, or the death of, a guide, signal, or service dog, while the dog is in discharge of its duties, guilty of a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 01/08/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/20/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 02/28/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB169 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 169 Lackey Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 169 Lackey Consent Calendar Second Day — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB169 Lackey et al. By Wilk — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lackey — primary (person)
• Choi — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-08 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-01-09 From printer. May be heard in committee February 8.
• 2019-01-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-02-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-02-21 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-02-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (February 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-02-28 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-03-04 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-03-20 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-03-21 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-03-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 918.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-03-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-04-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-05-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-24 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2490.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3238.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 604, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/899e7909-a967-498b-a925-a676c338045f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).