CA AB 519
enactedPet broker sales.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 519 pass?
Yes. CA AB 519 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-09. Latest recorded action (2025-10-09): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 478, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 519 about?
Existing law, the Lockyer-Polanco-Farr Pet Protection Act, requires dealers of dogs and cats to comply with its provisions, including maintaining certain health and safety standards for pets and providing purchasers and prospective purchasers of pets, upon request, with written notice of consumer rights concerning the sale of a pet, including information about available refunds and other remedies. Existing law prohibits an online pet retailer, as defined, from offering, brokering, making a referral for, or otherwise facilitating a loan or other financing option for, the adoption or sale of a dog, cat, or a rabbit. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions subject to a civil penalty. This bill would prohibit, subject to specified exemptions, a broker from making available for adoption, selling, or offering for sale a dog under one year of age, a cat, or rabbit. The bill would define a broker as a person or business that sells, arranges, negotiates, or processes, either in person or online, the sale of dogs, cats, or rabbits bred by another for profit and would include facilitating the transfer of those animals for profit.
Who sponsors CA AB 519?
Berman is the primary sponsor of CA AB 519, joined by 4 cosponsors.
Description
Existing law, the Lockyer-Polanco-Farr Pet Protection Act, requires dealers of dogs and cats to comply with its provisions, including maintaining certain health and safety standards for pets and providing purchasers and prospective purchasers of pets, upon request, with written notice of consumer rights concerning the sale of a pet, including information about available refunds and other remedies. Existing law prohibits an online pet retailer, as defined, from offering, brokering, making a referral for, or otherwise facilitating a loan or other financing option for, the adoption or sale of a dog, cat, or a rabbit. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions subject to a civil penalty. This bill would prohibit, subject to specified exemptions, a broker from making available for adoption, selling, or offering for sale a dog under one year of age, a cat, or rabbit. The bill would define a broker as a person or business that sells, arranges, negotiates, or processes, either in person or online, the sale of dogs, cats, or rabbits bred by another for profit and would include facilitating the transfer of those animals for profit.
- Introduced
- 2025-03-18
- Latest action
- 2025-10-09 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 478, Statutes of 2025.
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- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Bermanauthor
- Bennettprincipal coauthor
- Umbergprincipal coauthor
- Haneycoauthor
- Cervantescoauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-10
Read first time. To print.
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2025-02-11
From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
2025-02-24
Referred to Com. on B. & P.
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2025-03-17
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-03-18
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.
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2025-03-19
Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
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2025-04-04
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-04-22
Coauthors revised.
2025-04-22
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 22).
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2025-04-23
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-05
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1422.)
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2025-05-06
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-14
Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
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2025-05-28
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
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2025-07-01
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 30).
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2025-07-02
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-03
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 2. Page 2429.).
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2025-09-03
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-08
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 3016.).
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2025-09-15
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
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2025-10-09
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-09
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 478, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass.
2025-04-22 · pass · 17-0
Member-level votes (18)
- Lowenthal: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Berman: yes
- Flora: yes
- Haney: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Krell: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Chen: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Bains: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Macedo: other
AB 519 Berman Assembly Third Reading
2025-05-05 · pass · 74-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Rivas: yes
- Haney: yes
- Papan: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Patel: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Solache: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Krell: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Addis: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Lee: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Rogers: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Chen: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Hart: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Davies: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Ward: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Berman: yes
- Flora: yes
- Macedo: other
- Ta: other
- Tangipa: other
- Bains: other
- Ellis: other
Do pass as amended
2025-06-30 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Arreguín: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Weber Pierson: other
- Choi: other
- Strickland: other
- Grayson: other
- Niello: other
3rd Reading AB519 Berman et al. By Umberg
2025-09-03 · pass · 31-2
Member-level votes (40)
- Becker: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Stern: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Limón: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Allen: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Padilla: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Grayson: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Laird: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: no
- Jones: no
- Strickland: other
- Niello: other
- Grove: other
- Cortese: other
- Ochoa Bogh: other
- Seyarto: other
- Choi: other
AB 519 Berman Concurrence in Senate Amendments
2025-09-08 · pass · 73-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Ahrens: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Soria: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Davies: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Chen: yes
- Flora: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Nguyen: other
- Hadwick: other
- Tangipa: other
- Gallagher: other
- Macedo: other
- Ellis: other
- Ta: other
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