---
type: "Bill"
title: "Protective orders: credibly impersonating and falsely personating."
description: "Existing law authorizes a court to issue an ex parte order enjoining a party from engaging in specified acts against another party, including threatening or harassing that party, and, in the discretion of the court, against other named family or household members. A violation of this court order constitutes contempt of court, which is punishable as a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 157"
citation: "California AB 157 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Protective orders: credibly impersonating and falsely personating."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Campos"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2013-01-22"
last_action: "2013-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e133449-8256-4bba-9fe1-fe6840b92f0b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB157"
source_hash: "87257954c6d68cb583741c4c612d3da6cec040358ccada5a25b27615f185c747"
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 157 (20132014) — Protective orders: credibly impersonating and falsely personating.

Existing law authorizes a court to issue an ex parte order enjoining a party from engaging in specified acts against another party, including threatening or harassing that party, and, in the discretion of the court, against other named family or household members. A violation of this court order constitutes contempt of court, which is punishable as a misdemeanor.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/22/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB157&version=20130AB15799INT)
2. **04/08/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB157&version=20130AB15798AMD)
3. **04/22/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB157&version=20130AB15797AMD)
4. **09/09/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB157&version=20130AB15795CHP)
5. **AB157** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB157)
6. **08/23/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB157&version=20130AB15796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB157 Campos By Galgiani — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 157 CAMPOS Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Campos — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-01-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-01-23** From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
- **2013-01-31** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-04** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-08** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-18** From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-22** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-23** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-25** From consent calendar.
- **2013-04-25** Ordered to third reading.
- **2013-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1221.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-15** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-24** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2013-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-06-27** From consent calendar.
- **2013-06-27** Ordered to third reading.
- **2013-08-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1880.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-19** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2013-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
- **2013-09-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-09-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 260, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e133449-8256-4bba-9fe1-fe6840b92f0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).