republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1597.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food and agriculture."
description: "(1) Existing law requires any horse or other Equidae brought into the state to be accompanied by certain health information, including certification that the horse is free from evidence of any communicable disease. A violation of those provisions is an infraction or a misdemeanor, as specified. Existing law exempts from those provisions a horse or other Equidae moved from California to another state for no more than 14 days."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1597"
citation: "California AB 1597 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Food and agriculture."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Agriculture"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2014-02-04"
last_action: "2014-08-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfc7bd30-4e13-4b70-ba2e-243de23f590b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1597"
source_hash: "bfb3ef3679802c3bb600eee1f07ca0add2b0d6acd581d9feb423c9104acbe00c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1597 (20132014) — Food and agriculture.

(1) Existing law requires any horse or other Equidae brought into the state to be accompanied by certain health information, including certification that the horse is free from evidence of any communicable disease. A violation of those provisions is an infraction or a misdemeanor, as specified. Existing law exempts from those provisions a horse or other Equidae moved from California to another state for no more than 14 days.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/04/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1597&version=20130AB159799INT)
2. **06/03/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1597&version=20130AB159798AMD)
3. **08/25/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1597&version=20130AB159796CHP)
4. **AB1597** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1597)
5. **08/13/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1597&version=20130AB159797ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1597 Committee on AGRI. (Eggman) By Wolk — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1597 AGRI. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By EGGMAN — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1597 AGRI. Assembly Third Reading By EGGMAN — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Agriculture — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-05** From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
- **2014-02-14** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-09** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-10** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-21** From consent calendar.
- **2014-04-21** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-04-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4592.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-04-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-08** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-07-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4376.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5947.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2014-08-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-08-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 281, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bfc7bd30-4e13-4b70-ba2e-243de23f590b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).