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Bill	Emotional support animals.	Existing law regulates the sale of dogs and cats. Existing law also makes a person who knowingly and fraudulently represents, through verbal or written notice, the person to be the owner or trainer of a canine licensed as, to be qualified as, or identified as, a guide, signal, or service dog, as defined, guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 6 months, by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 468	California AB 468 (20212022)	bill	Emotional support animals.	enacted	Friedman	9	30	7	2021-02-08	2021-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/951ccbd1-ce1a-40f3-9cba-c3b96dea306d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB468	8a9b1d4b1fdd0131a5282499f2fff9ec6da5d22de5d9d933658b779c3a8f01ca	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 468 (20212022) — Emotional support animals.

Existing law regulates the sale of dogs and cats. Existing law also makes a person who knowingly and fraudulently represents, through verbal or written notice, the person to be the owner or trainer of a canine licensed as, to be qualified as, or identified as, a guide, signal, or service dog, as defined, guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 6 months, by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/08/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/06/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/08/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/01/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/16/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB468 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/03/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 468 Friedman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 468 Friedman Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB468 Friedman et al. By Bates — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Friedman — primary (person)
• Archuleta — coauthor (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Jones — coauthor (person)
• Newman — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-08 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-09 From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
• 2021-02-18 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-03-22 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-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-03-23 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2021-04-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-05 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1408.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-05-27 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-08 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-14 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2220.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-01 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 2625.)
• 2021-09-01 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2642.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2021-09-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 168, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/951ccbd1-ce1a-40f3-9cba-c3b96dea306d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).