---
type: "Bill"
title: "Protective orders."
description: "Under existing law, the court is required to consider, at the time of sentencing, issuing a protective order, which may be valid for up to 10 years, in a case in which a defendant has been convicted of a crime of domestic violence or of specified sex offenses, restraining the defendant from any contact with the victim. Under existing law, contempt of a court order is a misdemeanor, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 264"
citation: "California AB 264 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Protective orders."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Low"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-31"
last_action: "2017-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbf5000d-22b7-416a-aa70-b3f1e65e90b6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB264"
source_hash: "24a25107a0ac61ca1a63425f99722879881a031de660956b848965ade94cf131"
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 264 (20172018) — Protective orders.

Under existing law, the court is required to consider, at the time of sentencing, issuing a protective order, which may be valid for up to 10 years, in a case in which a defendant has been convicted of a crime of domestic violence or of specified sex offenses, restraining the defendant from any contact with the victim. Under existing law, contempt of a court order is a misdemeanor, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/31/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB264&version=20170AB26499INT)
2. **03/09/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB264&version=20170AB26498AMD)
3. **03/28/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB264&version=20170AB26497AMD)
4. **06/20/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB264&version=20170AB26496AMD)
5. **09/25/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB264&version=20170AB26494CHP)
6. **AB264** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB264)
7. **09/08/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB264&version=20170AB26495ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 264 LOW Assembly Third Reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB264 Low et al. By Anderson — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 264 LOW Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Low — primary (person)
- Anderson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-31** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
- **2017-02-13** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-13** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-03-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 21). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-03-28** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1302.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-26** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-07-10** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-07-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2178.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-09-07** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3009.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2017-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 270, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbf5000d-22b7-416a-aa70-b3f1e65e90b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).