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Bill	Veterinary medicine: cat declawing.	Existing law, the Veterinary Medicine Practice Act, establishes the California Veterinary Medical Board to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine, and specifies acts the performance of which constitutes the practice of veterinary medicine, surgery, and dentistry, including performing a surgical operation upon an animal. Existing law provides that nothing in the act prohibits a person from practicing veterinary medicine as a bona fide owner of one's own animals. A violation of the act is a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 867	California AB 867 (20252026)	bill	Veterinarymedicine catdeclawing	enacted	Lee	7	24	6	2025-02-19	2025-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/fdfa3333-7a35-46f9-a09c-9d67bfcf8a8b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB867	6b10159b7ea788330daf7e938ddbfcfe962c2bd94f638981142b85b4823a1667	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 867 (20252026) — Veterinary medicine: cat declawing.

Existing law, the Veterinary Medicine Practice Act, establishes the California Veterinary Medical Board to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine, and specifies acts the performance of which constitutes the practice of veterinary medicine, surgery, and dentistry, including performing a surgical operation upon an animal. Existing law provides that nothing in the act prohibits a person from practicing veterinary medicine as a bona fide owner of one's own animals. A violation of the act is a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/17/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/03/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/09/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB867 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/11/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 867 Lee Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB867 Lee et al. By Arreguín — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 867 Lee Assembly Third Reading — 72–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lee — primary (person)
• Arreguín — coauthor (person)
• Caloza — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2025-03-03 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 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
• 2025-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2025-04-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1319.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-04-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-07 Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2025-06-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-06-17 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
• 2025-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-06-30 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2624.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 3112.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 479, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fdfa3333-7a35-46f9-a09c-9d67bfcf8a8b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).