---
type: "Bill"
title: "Protective orders: early termination."
description: "Existing law authorizes a court to issue an injunction enjoining a party from certain acts and behaviors in a variety of circumstances, including in cases of harassment, workplace violence, potential violence at a postsecondary school campus, domestic violence, child abuse, and elder abuse. Existing law permits a court to terminate or modify these protective orders, which may include stay-away and residence exclusion orders, on written stipulation filed with the court or on the motion of a party."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 454"
citation: "California AB 454 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Protective orders: early termination."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Silva"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2011-02-15"
last_action: "2011-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1ee9098-0bec-44d7-88b2-37e0bd4f690b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB454"
source_hash: "f6f33aa5d5cde5f8a888bd8841c382239d095e9dce02cc046ce8c52e9e90f423"
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 454 (20112012) — Protective orders: early termination.

Existing law authorizes a court to issue an injunction enjoining a party from certain acts and behaviors in a variety of circumstances, including in cases of harassment, workplace violence, potential violence at a postsecondary school campus, domestic violence, child abuse, and elder abuse. Existing law permits a court to terminate or modify these protective orders, which may include stay-away and residence exclusion orders, on written stipulation filed with the court or on the motion of a party.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/15/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB454&version=20110AB45499INT)
2. **03/16/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB454&version=20110AB45498AMD)
3. **05/10/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB454&version=20110AB45497AMD)
4. **05/27/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB454&version=20110AB45496AMD)
5. **07/25/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB454&version=20110AB45494CHP)
6. **AB454** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB454)
7. **07/06/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB454&version=20110AB45495ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent #5 AB454 Silva By Harman — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 454 SILVA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **62–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 454 SILVA Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Silva — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2011-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2011-03-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-17** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-22** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-23** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-03-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 702.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-03-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-04-07** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-05-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2011-06-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1573.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-07-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 0. Page 2157.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:45 p.m.
- **2011-07-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-07-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 101, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f1ee9098-0bec-44d7-88b2-37e0bd4f690b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).