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Bill	Restraining orders: protection of animals.	Existing law authorizes the court to issue a restraining order or a protective order to enjoin a party from specified behavior, such as, among other things, enjoining a person from molesting, attacking, striking, threatening, sexually assaulting, battering, harassing, telephoning, destroying the personal property of, or contacting another person, upon the showing of good cause. Existing law authorizes the court to issue an ex parte order under specified circumstances related to the protection of a ward of the court.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 494	California AB 494 (20152016)	bill	Restraining orders: protection of animals.	enacted	Maienschein	7	23	5	2015-02-23	2015-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0a9b9fa4-0c55-4107-b681-98408f620376	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB494	8466638637a7a130a7c8b88b6f184ea79b33b8c85ba23af8bc85c36f4d72ec4f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 494 (20152016) — Restraining orders: protection of animals.

Existing law authorizes the court to issue a restraining order or a protective order to enjoin a party from specified behavior, such as, among other things, enjoining a person from molesting, attacking, striking, threatening, sexually assaulting, battering, harassing, telephoning, destroying the personal property of, or contacting another person, upon the showing of good cause. Existing law authorizes the court to issue an ex parte order under specified circumstances related to the protection of a ward of the court.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/18/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/17/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/01/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB494 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 494 MAIENSCHEIN Assembly Third Reading — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB494 Maienschein By Jackson — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 494 MAIENSCHEIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)
• Achadjian — coauthor (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Chávez — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-04-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 7). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-13 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 972.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-05-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-10 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-11 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-15 From Consent Calendar.
• 2015-06-15 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-08-17 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2330.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-09-02 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2795.)
• 2015-09-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2809.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 401, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0a9b9fa4-0c55-4107-b681-98408f620376. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).