---
type: "Bill"
title: "Protective orders: human trafficking: pimping: pandering."
description: "Existing law requires a court to consider issuing a protective order restraining the defendant from contact with the victim for up to 10 years in all cases in which a criminal defendant has been convicted of a crime involving domestic violence, rape, unlawful sexual intercourse, or any crime requiring registration as a sex offender, including, but not limited to, pimping or pandering a minor, and human trafficking to effect or maintain a violation of specified sex offenses. A violation of a protective order is punishable as contempt, a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1735"
citation: "California AB 1735 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Protective orders: human trafficking: pimping: pandering."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cunningham"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31ceeaa7-b89f-4c83-8a69-a700141d89b3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1735"
source_hash: "93b1f3e4f092fc9d50d3b9adf4b5453f8b2a76a96ee5ea19455a47805d421cf4"
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 1735 (20172018) — Protective orders: human trafficking: pimping: pandering.

Existing law requires a court to consider issuing a protective order restraining the defendant from contact with the victim for up to 10 years in all cases in which a criminal defendant has been convicted of a crime involving domestic violence, rape, unlawful sexual intercourse, or any crime requiring registration as a sex offender, including, but not limited to, pimping or pandering a minor, and human trafficking to effect or maintain a violation of specified sex offenses. A violation of a protective order is punishable as contempt, a misdemeanor.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/03/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1735&version=20170AB173599INT)
2. **09/27/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1735&version=20170AB173597CHP)
3. **AB1735** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1735)
4. **08/27/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1735&version=20170AB173598ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent AB1735 — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cunningham — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-01-04** From printer. May be heard in committee February 3.
- **2018-01-16** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-04** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 2. Page 5385.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-07** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-21** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2018-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5702.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-24** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2018-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2018-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 805, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31ceeaa7-b89f-4c83-8a69-a700141d89b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).