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type: "Bill"
title: "Guide, signal, and service dogs: injury or death."
description: "Under existing law, it is an infraction or a misdemeanor for a person to permit a dog that is owned, harbored, or controlled by the person to cause injury to, or the death of, a guide, signal, or service dog, as defined, while the guide, signal, or service dog is in discharge of its duties. Existing law makes a person who intentionally causes injury to, or the death of, a guide, signal, or service dog, while the dog is in discharge of its duties, guilty of a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 169"
citation: "California AB 169 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Guide", "signal", "and service dogs: injury or death."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lackey"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/899e7909-a967-498b-a925-a676c338045f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB169"
source_hash: "29292016cbe424a4f78bdd850aef3f18d5cc096145a9fb13c36212f3ef64e1a5"
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 169 (20192020) — Guide, signal, and service dogs: injury or death.
Under existing law, it is an infraction or a misdemeanor for a person to permit a dog that is owned, harbored, or controlled by the person to cause injury to, or the death of, a guide, signal, or service dog, as defined, while the guide, signal, or service dog is in discharge of its duties. Existing law makes a person who intentionally causes injury to, or the death of, a guide, signal, or service dog, while the dog is in discharge of its duties, guilty of a misdemeanor.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/08/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB169&version=20190AB16999INT)
2. **02/20/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB169&version=20190AB16998AMD)
3. **02/28/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB169&version=20190AB16997AMD)
4. **08/30/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB169&version=20190AB16996AMD)
5. **10/08/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB169&version=20190AB16994CHP)
6. **AB169** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB169)
7. **09/13/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB169&version=20190AB16995ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **80** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 169 Lackey Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **790** (pass) · lower
- AB 169 Lackey Consent Calendar Second Day — **720** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **130** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB169 Lackey et al. By Wilk — **400** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Lackey — primary (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-01-09** From printer. May be heard in committee February 8.
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-02-21** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (February 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-02-28** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-03-04** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-03-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 918.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-03-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-24** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-08-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2490.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3238.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-18** 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 604, Statutes of 2019.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/899e7909-a967-498b-a925-a676c338045f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).