republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1125.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Animal Control Officer Standards Act."
description: "Existing law, the Code Enforcement Officer Standards Act, requires the Board of Directors of the California Association of Code Enforcement Officers to develop and maintain standards for the designation of Certified Code Enforcement Officers, and to designate minimum training, qualifications, and experience requirements for applicants to qualify for that designation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1125"
citation: "California AB 1125 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Animal Control Officer Standards Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cooley"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0386ad99-7284-43ce-a33f-3e51ecf1cfd9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1125"
source_hash: "2a1af565627b51dc68e9a675edca17ce96bae94c5b30d38507e26067abbdad93"
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 1125 (20192020) — Animal Control Officer Standards Act.

Existing law, the Code Enforcement Officer Standards Act, requires the Board of Directors of the California Association of Code Enforcement Officers to develop and maintain standards for the designation of Certified Code Enforcement Officers, and to designate minimum training, qualifications, and experience requirements for applicants to qualify for that designation.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1125&version=20190AB112599INT)
2. **05/29/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1125&version=20190AB112598AMD)
3. **09/06/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1125&version=20190AB112597AMD)
4. **10/08/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1125&version=20190AB112595CHP)
5. **AB1125** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1125)
6. **09/16/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1125&version=20190AB112596ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1125 Cooley By Archuleta — **31–6** (pass) · upper
- AB 1125 Cooley Assembly Third Reading By WOOD — **70–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **8–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 1125 Cooley Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Business, Professions and Economic Development] — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cooley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2019-03-07** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-29** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 2064.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-30** Assembly Rule 69(d) suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 17. Page 2149.)
- **2019-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 1. Page 2150.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-12** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & E.D. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (July 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-07-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2778.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-11** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3370.)
- **2019-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 3384.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 622, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0386ad99-7284-43ce-a33f-3e51ecf1cfd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).