---
type: "Bill"
title: "Domestic violence: coercive control."
description: "Existing law establishes the Domestic Violence Prevention Act for the purpose of preventing acts of domestic violence, abuse, and sexual abuse and providing for a separation of the persons involved in the domestic violence for a period sufficient to enable those persons to seek a resolution of the causes of the violence."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 1141"
citation: "California SB 1141 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Domestic violence: coercive control."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rubio"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-02-19"
last_action: "2020-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c019dfc-c886-4329-b145-a256ae291708"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1141"
source_hash: "09061e27cbcbd5be29d2a11a475d90342d3ab1a903c58862d30a5654a031e477"
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 SB 1141 (20192020) — Domestic violence: coercive control.

Existing law establishes the Domestic Violence Prevention Act for the purpose of preventing acts of domestic violence, abuse, and sexual abuse and providing for a separation of the persons involved in the domestic violence for a period sufficient to enable those persons to seek a resolution of the causes of the violence.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1141&version=20190SB114199INT)
2. **05/06/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1141&version=20190SB114198AMD)
3. **05/29/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1141&version=20190SB114197AMD)
4. **07/27/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1141&version=20190SB114196AMD)
5. **08/06/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1141&version=20190SB114195AMD)
6. **09/29/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1141&version=20190SB114193CHP)
7. **SB1141** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1141)
8. **09/04/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1141&version=20190SB114194ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business SB1141 Rubio et al. Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1141 Rubio Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB1141 Rubio et al. — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rubio — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Bates — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Chang — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Eggman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-19** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
- **2020-02-27** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2020-05-11** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-13** Set for hearing May 22.
- **2020-05-28** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3583.) (May 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-05-29** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-03** Set for hearing June 9.
- **2020-06-09** June 9 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2020-06-11** Set for hearing June 18.
- **2020-06-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3769.) (June 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-06-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-25** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 3841.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-29** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-09** July 22 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-07-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-07-27** July 30 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-08-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-07** Coauthors revised.
- **2020-08-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-18** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5282.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-30** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2020-08-30** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2020-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2020-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 248, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9c019dfc-c886-4329-b145-a256ae291708`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).