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type: "Bill"
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title: "Restraining orders: protection of animals."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20152016"
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identifier: "AB 494"
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citation: "California AB 494 (20152016)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Restraining orders: protection of animals."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 23
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2015-02-23"
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last_action: "2015-10-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a9b9fa4-0c55-4107-b681-98408f620376"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB494"
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source_hash: "8466638637a7a130a7c8b88b6f184ea79b33b8c85ba23af8bc85c36f4d72ec4f"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 494 (20152016) — Restraining orders: protection of animals.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/23/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB494&version=20150AB49499INT)
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2. **04/13/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB494&version=20150AB49498AMD)
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3. **05/18/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB494&version=20150AB49497AMD)
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4. **08/17/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB494&version=20150AB49496AMD)
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5. **10/01/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB494&version=20150AB49494CHP)
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6. **AB494** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB494)
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7. **09/04/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB494&version=20150AB49495ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 494 MAIENSCHEIN Assembly Third Reading — **79–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB494 Maienschein By Jackson — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 494 MAIENSCHEIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Maienschein — primary (person)
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- Achadjian — coauthor (person)
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- Bates — coauthor (person)
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- Chávez — coauthor (person)
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- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
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- McCarty — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2015-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2015-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
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- **2015-03-05** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-04-09** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 7). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-04-13** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-04-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-04-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 972.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-04-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2015-06-10** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-06-11** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-06-15** From Consent Calendar.
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- **2015-06-15** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2015-08-17** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2330.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-01** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2015-09-02** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2795.)
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- **2015-09-02** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2809.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-09-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2015-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2015-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 401, Statutes of 2015.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a9b9fa4-0c55-4107-b681-98408f620376`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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