Bill Text: CA AB2774 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Animal shelters: adoption application: crimes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 877, Statutes of 2018. [AB2774 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB2774-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2774

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Introduced by Assembly Member Limón
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Low)
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Bloom)

February 16, 2018

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An act relating to animal abuse.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2774, as introduced, Limón. Animal abuse: database.

Existing law generally makes a person who maliciously and intentionally mains, mutilates, tortures, or wounds a living animal, or maliciously and intentionally kills an animal, guilty of a crime.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require a court to submit information on an individual convicted of animal abuse to the Department of Justice and that would require the Department of Justice to create an Internet Web site with a list of individuals convicted of animal abuse for the purpose of providing animal shelters, pet stores, and animal sellers with this information.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require a court to submit information on an individual convicted of animal abuse to the Department of Justice and that would require the Department of Justice to create an Internet Web site with a list of individuals convicted of animal abuse for the purpose of providing animal shelters, pet stores, and animal sellers with this information.