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Bill	Animal shelters: disclosure: dog bites.	Existing law governs the operation of animal shelters by, among other things, setting a minimum holding period for stray dogs, cats, and other specified animals, and requiring animal shelters to ensure that those animals, if adopted, are spayed or neutered.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 588	California AB 588 (20192020)	bill	Animal shelters: disclosure: dog bites.	enacted	Chen	8	26	6	2019-02-14	2019-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/227c14e9-ba51-4285-8f33-9886dd943415	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB588	f1f779d9447d733a0eaa16abeafd23a0754ff2f2bdd1221760c169dbad471d42	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 588 (20192020) — Animal shelters: disclosure: dog bites.

Existing law governs the operation of animal shelters by, among other things, setting a minimum holding period for stray dogs, cats, and other specified animals, and requiring animal shelters to ensure that those animals, if adopted, are spayed or neutered.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/22/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/20/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/02/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB588 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB588 Chen et al. By Glazer — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 588 Chen Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 588 Chen Consent Calendar Second Day — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chen — primary (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2019-02-25 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (March 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-27 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 Coauthors revised.
• 2019-04-03 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-04-04 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1190.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-04-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-04-24 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2019-05-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-04 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-06-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-20 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-07-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-30 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 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 2517.). 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 78. Noes 0. Page 3240.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 430, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/227c14e9-ba51-4285-8f33-9886dd943415. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).