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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 1212: Endangered wildlife: kangaroos.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 1212 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 19, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Endangered wildlife: kangaroos. Primary sponsor: Brian Jones (R). Most recent recorded action (April 23, 2026): April 21 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 2. Page 3981.).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to import into the state for commercial purposes, to possess with intent to sell, or to sell within the state the dead body, or a part or product thereof, of a polar bear, leopard, ocelot, tiger, cheetah, jaguar, sable antelope, wolf, zebra, whale, cobra, python, sea turtle, colobus monkey, kangaroo, vicuna, sea otter, free-roaming feral horse, dolphin or porpoise, Spanish lynx, or elephant.

This bill would exempt from that prohibition the import into the state for commercial purposes, possession with intent to sell, or sale within the state of kangaroos if they are harvested in accordance with Australian law, the federal Endangered Species Act, and applicable international conventions, as specified.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Brian JonesPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate40

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. April 21 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 2. Page 3981.)
  2. Set for hearing April 21.
  3. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
  4. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
  5. Referred to Com. on RLS.
  6. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
  7. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page