republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-1709.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Biologics: animal blood and blood component products: commercial blood banks for animals."
description: "Existing law defines biologics, requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to license biologic establishments that meet specified requirements, provides requirements relating to the application for a biologic license, and requires a certain biologic license application fee and license renewal fee. A violation of these provisions is a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1709"
citation: "California AB 1709 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Biologics: animal blood and blood component products: commercial blood banks for animals."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Conway"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2010-02-02"
last_action: "2010-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d42fc02-8fcb-4ab3-9f56-d92e5f1e344d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1709"
source_hash: "c3f5018db84c1cc55b7eee8d619e49453651e8ab1e5e858c4a1f5bb010258a80"
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 1709 (20092010) — Biologics: animal blood and blood component products: commercial blood banks for animals.

Existing law defines biologics, requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to license biologic establishments that meet specified requirements, provides requirements relating to the application for a biologic license, and requires a certain biologic license application fee and license renewal fee. A violation of these provisions is a crime.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/02/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1709&version=20090AB170999INT)
2. **04/05/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1709&version=20090AB170998AMD)
3. **04/20/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1709&version=20090AB170997AMD)
4. **05/05/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1709&version=20090AB170996AMD)
5. **08/17/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1709&version=20090AB170995AMD)
6. **09/24/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1709&version=20090AB170993CHP)
7. **AB1709** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1709)
8. **08/30/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1709&version=20090AB170994ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1709 CONWAY Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1709 CONWAY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1709 Conway By Emmerson — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Conway — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-02** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-03** From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
- **2010-04-05** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-19** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 14). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-20** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-17** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-20** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5235.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-06-03** Referred to Com. on F. & A. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-15** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-29** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2010-06-30** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-02** From Consent Calendar. To third reading.
- **2010-08-17** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-20** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4713.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-23** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6463.)
- **2010-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6482.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-09-03** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:45 p.m.
- **2010-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 235, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d42fc02-8fcb-4ab3-9f56-d92e5f1e344d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).