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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Restraining orders."
+description: "(1) Existing law authorizes a person who has suffered harassment, as defined, to seek a temporary restraining order and an order prohibiting harassment. Existing law prohibits a filing fee for, and a fee for the service of process by a sheriff or marshal of, a protective or restraining order if the order is based upon stalking, unlawful violence, or a credible threat of violence."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "AB 561"
+citation: "California AB 561 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Restrainingorders"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Quirk-Silva"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2025-02-12"
+last_action: "2025-10-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/886794bb-7b96-4972-b40f-613f506e4bff"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB561"
+source_hash: "97920cebbf8565bb83932ec18dc9cf56f986c2ac3d8214e445d2ff862319e8c3"
+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 561 (20252026) — Restraining orders.
+
+(1) Existing law authorizes a person who has suffered harassment, as defined, to seek a temporary restraining order and an order prohibiting harassment. Existing law prohibits a filing fee for, and a fee for the service of process by a sheriff or marshal of, a protective or restraining order if the order is based upon stalking, unlawful violence, or a credible threat of violence.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/12/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB561&version=20250AB56199INT)
+2. **03/10/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB561&version=20250AB56198AMD)
+3. **07/10/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB561&version=20250AB56197AMD)
+4. **08/18/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB561&version=20250AB56196AMD)
+5. **09/04/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB561&version=20250AB56195AMD)
+6. **10/03/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB561&version=20250AB56193CHP)
+7. **AB561** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB561)
+8. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB561&version=20250AB56194ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading AB561 Quirk-Silva By Allen — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 561 Quirk-Silva Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 561 Quirk-Silva Assembly Third Reading — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Quirk-Silva — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
+- **2025-03-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-11** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1838.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-11** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2025-07-09** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 8). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-10** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-07** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2025-08-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-18** (Ayes 27. Noes 0. Page 2170.)
+- **2025-08-25** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-02** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2025-09-03** From special consent calendar.
+- **2025-09-03** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2025-09-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2668.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
+- **2025-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3222.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2025-10-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 267, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/886794bb-7b96-4972-b40f-613f506e4bff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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