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Bill	Pets and veterinary services: emotional support dogs.	Existing law prohibits a health care practitioner from providing documentation relating to an individual's need for an emotional support dog unless the health care practitioner complies with specified criteria, including, among other things, that the health care practitioner establish a client-provider relationship with the individual for at least 30 days prior to providing the documentation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 774	California SB 774 (20212022)	bill	Pets and veterinary services: emotional support dogs.	enacted	Hertzberg	8	41	7	2021-02-19	2022-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/42f7d7d6-3efa-4a0f-8d31-af79dcf29da5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB774	d885acb319694eb62882a5365b3504b348146147c8609f488636d7a77baf16a1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 774 (20212022) — Pets and veterinary services: emotional support dogs.

Existing law prohibits a health care practitioner from providing documentation relating to an individual's need for an emotional support dog unless the health care practitioner complies with specified criteria, including, among other things, that the health care practitioner establish a client-provider relationship with the individual for at least 30 days prior to providing the documentation.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/14/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/29/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/03/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/26/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB774 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/07/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 27–10 (pass) · upper
• SB 774 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By Stone Amend By STONE Set #1 — 59–18 (pass) · lower
• SB 774 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• W/O REF. TO FILE — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 9–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 8–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-03-03 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2021-03-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-11 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2021-04-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 688.) (April 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 885.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-04-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-13 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-02 June 8 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-06-16 June 22 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2021-07-05 July 6 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-07-13 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-14 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-07-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 59. Noes 18. Page 2782.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-10 Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Chau.
• 2022-08-22 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Stone.
• 2022-08-23 From inactive file.
• 2022-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-29 Joint Rule 61(b)(16) suspended.
• 2022-08-29 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-29 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-29 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2022-08-30 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
• 2022-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5423.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2022-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 550, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/42f7d7d6-3efa-4a0f-8d31-af79dcf29da5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).