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type: "Bill"
title: "Safe transportation of dogs and cats."
description: "Existing law governs the retail sale of dogs and cats by pet dealers, as defined, and establishes minimum standards for the care of those animals, as specified. Existing law makes it a crime to leave or confine an animal in an unattended motor vehicle under conditions that endanger the health or well-being of an animal due to heat, cold, lack of adequate ventilation, lack of food or water, or other circumstances that could reasonably be expected to cause suffering, disability, or death to the animal."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1781"
citation: "California AB 1781 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Safe transportation of dogs and cats."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blanca Rubio"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-02-03"
last_action: "2022-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fc5a253-2f11-45a1-be66-f24cc64f393b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1781"
source_hash: "5628b8e51318099eda06e3594c26af978cf2ce8e01cc412de536d4bb60ab3ac5"
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 1781 (20212022) — Safe transportation of dogs and cats.
Existing law governs the retail sale of dogs and cats by pet dealers, as defined, and establishes minimum standards for the care of those animals, as specified. Existing law makes it a crime to leave or confine an animal in an unattended motor vehicle under conditions that endanger the health or well-being of an animal due to heat, cold, lack of adequate ventilation, lack of food or water, or other circumstances that could reasonably be expected to cause suffering, disability, or death to the animal.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/03/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1781&version=20210AB178199INT)
2. **04/05/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1781&version=20210AB178198AMD)
3. **07/01/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1781&version=20210AB178196CHP)
4. **AB1781** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1781)
5. **06/17/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1781&version=20210AB178197ENR)
## Votes
- Special Consent AB1781 — **350** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **170** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **120** (pass) · upper
- AB 1781 Blanca Rubio Consent Calendar Second Day — **700** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Blanca Rubio — primary (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-02-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-04** From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
- **2022-02-10** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** 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`
- **2022-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-26** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-04-26** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-27** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 4521.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-11** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-14** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2022-06-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4266.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-16** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-07-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-07-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 80, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0fc5a253-2f11-45a1-be66-f24cc64f393b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).