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Bill	Domestic violence: probation.	Existing law specifies that the terms of probation granted to a person who has been convicted of domestic violence are required to include, among other things, successful completion of a batterer's program, as defined, or, if such a program is not available, another appropriate counseling program designated by the court, for a period of not less than one year. Existing law requires the program to be completed within 18 months and allows no more than 3 excused absences. Existing law provides for the approval of batterer's programs by the probation department and requires the goal of a batterer's program to be stopping domestic violence. Existing law requires a program to meet certain requirements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 372	California AB 372 (20172018)	bill	Domestic violence: probation.	enacted	Mark Stone	8	28	5	2017-02-09	2018-09-07	openstates	ocd-bill/9f49f0b8-9853-4b52-bf32-06f020378c79	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB372	199f1a9cb2ee54e017eee2fd22a153a4f2b2b795391a8008693555ce0d3f6a89	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 372 (20172018) — Domestic violence: probation.

Existing law specifies that the terms of probation granted to a person who has been convicted of domestic violence are required to include, among other things, successful completion of a batterer's program, as defined, or, if such a program is not available, another appropriate counseling program designated by the court, for a period of not less than one year. Existing law requires the program to be completed within 18 months and allows no more than 3 excused absences. Existing law provides for the approval of batterer's programs by the probation department and requires the goal of a batterer's program to be stopping domestic violence. Existing law requires a program to meet certain requirements.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/03/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/06/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/19/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/07/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB372 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 372 STONE Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB372 Mark Stone By Dodd — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 372 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark Stone — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-10 From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
• 2017-02-21 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-03 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
• 2017-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-04-04 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-19 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-24 From Consent Calendar by request of Assembly Member Mark Stone. To Third Reading. reading-1
• 2017-05-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1521.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-07-11 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-06-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-06-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5511.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6609.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 290, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9f49f0b8-9853-4b52-bf32-06f020378c79. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).