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Bill	Accessibility to emergency information and services: evacuations: pets.	Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, provides that political subdivisions, as defined, have full power during a local emergency to provide mutual aid to any affected area in accordance with local ordinances, resolutions, emergency plans, or agreements. Existing law defines "emergency plan" for these purposes to mean official and approved documents that describe the principles and methods to be applied in carrying out emergency operations or rendering mutual aid during emergencies. Existing law requires that a county send a copy of its emergency plan to the Office of Emergency Services upon an update to the plan.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 478	California AB 478 (20252026)	bill	Accessibilitytoemergencyinformationandservices evacuations pets	enacted	Zbur	11	34	9	2025-02-10	2025-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/410ffecf-87f8-493c-958e-81cf77dc83bf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB478	352190ee370a3575d0a7c9528a1b853cbeeb93df1b37347b61349d6617397344	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 478 (20252026) — Accessibility to emergency information and services: evacuations: pets.

Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, provides that political subdivisions, as defined, have full power during a local emergency to provide mutual aid to any affected area in accordance with local ordinances, resolutions, emergency plans, or agreements. Existing law defines "emergency plan" for these purposes to mean official and approved documents that describe the principles and methods to be applied in carrying out emergency operations or rendering mutual aid during emergencies. Existing law requires that a county send a copy of its emergency plan to the Office of Emergency Services upon an update to the plan.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/27/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/30/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/16/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/05/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/13/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB478 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 478 Zbur Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 478 Zbur Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB478 Zbur et al. By Allen — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Business, Professions and Economic Development] — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Zbur — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2025-03-24 Referred to Com. on E.M. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.M. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on E.M. referral-committee
• 2025-04-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.M. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on E.M. referral-committee
• 2025-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-27 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
• 2025-05-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-05-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1927.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and B. P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2025-06-24 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-06-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. P. & E.D. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 14). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-08-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2933.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3377.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 695, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/410ffecf-87f8-493c-958e-81cf77dc83bf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).