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Yes: 201 • No: 2
CaliforniaAB 5192025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
Pet broker sales.
Sponsored By: Marc Berman (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
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2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Brokers banned: cats, rabbits, young dogs
The law bans pet brokers from making available for adoption, selling, or offering for sale cats, rabbits, and dogs under one year of age. It applies to in‑person and online activity. A broker is anyone who sells, arranges, negotiates, or processes sales of these animals bred by someone else for profit, including facilitating transfers for profit. If you run a broker business, you must stop listing and selling these animals.
Some transfers still allowed under ban
The law keeps some transfers legal despite the broker ban. A bona fide owner can sell or transfer an animal up to three times per calendar year. Government agencies, service-dog transfers, public shelters, and animal rescue groups may also transfer animals. A rescue group must be a 501(c)(3), must focus on rescue and placement, must not breed animals, and must not get animals from breeders or brokers in exchange for payment. A public animal control agency or shelter is a government-run or contracted facility that holds seized, stray, homeless, abandoned, or unwanted animals.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Marc Berman
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
Steve Bennett
Democratic • House
Sabrina Cervantes
Democratic • Senate
Matt Haney
Democratic • House
Thomas Umberg
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 9/8/2025
Item 9 — Assembly AFLOOR
Yes: 73 • No: 0
Senate vote • 9/3/2025
Item 93 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 31 • No: 2
legislature vote • 6/30/2025
Vote in CS42
Yes: 6 • No: 0
House vote • 5/5/2025
Item 97 — Assembly AFLOOR
Yes: 74 • No: 0
legislature vote • 4/22/2025
Vote in CX33
Yes: 17 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 478, Statutes of 2025.
10/9/2025SenateApproved by the Governor.
10/9/2025legislatureEnrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
9/15/2025legislatureSenate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 3016.).
9/8/2025HouseIn Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
9/3/2025HouseRead third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 2. Page 2429.).
9/3/2025SenateRead second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
7/2/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 30).
7/1/2025SenateFrom 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.
5/28/2025SenateReferred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
5/14/2025SenateIn Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
5/6/2025SenateRead third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1422.)
5/5/2025HouseRead second time. Ordered to third reading.
4/23/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 22).
4/22/2025HouseCoauthors revised.
4/22/2025HouseIn committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
4/4/2025HouseRe-referred to Com. on B. & P.
3/19/2025HouseFrom committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.
3/18/2025HouseIn committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
3/17/2025HouseReferred to Com. on B. & P.
2/24/2025HouseFrom printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
2/11/2025HouseRead first time. To print.
2/10/2025House
Bill Text
Chaptered
10/9/2025
Enrolled
9/10/2025
Amended Senate
7/2/2025
Amended Senate
5/28/2025
Amended Assembly
3/18/2025
Introduced
2/10/2025