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Bill	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 264	California AB 264 (20172018)	bill	Protective orders.	enacted	Low	7	25	6	2017-01-31	2017-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/fbf5000d-22b7-416a-aa70-b3f1e65e90b6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB264	24a25107a0ac61ca1a63425f99722879881a031de660956b848965ade94cf131	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. 03/09/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/28/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/20/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/25/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB264 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/fbf5000d-22b7-416a-aa70-b3f1e65e90b6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).