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Bill	Crime: animal abuse.	Existing law makes it a crime to maliciously and intentionally maim, mutilate, torture, wound, or kill a living animal. If a defendant is granted probation for a conviction of this offense, existing law requires the court to order the defendant to complete counseling designed to evaluate and treat behavior or conduct disorders.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 829	California AB 829 (20232024)	bill	Crime animal abuse	enacted	Waldron	8	27	8	2023-02-13	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/2f7e0604-06ac-4546-9746-52966f35323a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB829	deb38d7284c2536288ea6dba39d08a855e1742d4aa0004633365072ee2fce5a8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 829 (20232024) — Crime: animal abuse.

Existing law makes it a crime to maliciously and intentionally maim, mutilate, torture, wound, or kill a living animal. If a defendant is granted probation for a conviction of this offense, existing law requires the court to order the defendant to complete counseling designed to evaluate and treat behavior or conduct disorders.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/13/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/08/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB829 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 829 Waldron Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB829 Waldron By Rubio — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 829 Waldron Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Waldron — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2023-03-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-03-16 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
• 2023-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-04-13 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
• 2023-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1873.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2023-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-03 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2791.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3600.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 546, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2f7e0604-06ac-4546-9746-52966f35323a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).