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Bill	Housing: household pets.	Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to require each housing development, as defined, that is financed on or after January 1, 2018, pursuant to the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, to authorize a resident of the housing development to own or otherwise maintain one or more common household pets, as defined, within the resident's dwelling unit, subject to applicable state laws and local government ordinances related to public health, animal control, and animal anticruelty.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 971	California SB 971 (20212022)	bill	Housing: household pets.	enacted	Newman	7	29	6	2022-02-10	2022-09-02	openstates	ocd-bill/6cb1a4b4-8e5c-436a-b278-b04901352608	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB971	a9e34ee17a39cb56d5f40df0511ff969c86108a8076460618f01c686319fb890	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 971 (20212022) — Housing: household pets.

Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to require each housing development, as defined, that is financed on or after January 1, 2018, pursuant to the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, to authorize a resident of the housing development to own or otherwise maintain one or more common household pets, as defined, within the resident's dwelling unit, subject to applicable state laws and local government ordinances related to public health, animal control, and animal anticruelty.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/02/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB971 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/17/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 971 Newman Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 30–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB971 Newman et al. Concurrence — 31–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Newman — primary (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-10 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-02-10 Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
• 2022-02-11 From printer.
• 2022-03-09 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2022-03-10 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
• 2022-03-18 Set for hearing March 24 in HOUSING pending receipt.
• 2022-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2022-03-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3219.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-05 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2022-04-18 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-04-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-16 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-16 Ordered to second reading.
• 2022-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 1. Page 3864.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-05-27 Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2022-06-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 June 15 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-06-29 Coauthors revised.
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-03 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-04 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5827.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-11 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-15 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 3. Page 4830.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
• 2022-09-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 241, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6cb1a4b4-8e5c-436a-b278-b04901352608. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).