republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-1129.md

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Bill	Spousal support award: convictions.	Existing law requires that in any proceeding for dissolution of marriage where one spouse has been convicted of an act of domestic violence against the other spouse within a specific time period, there is a rebuttable presumption affecting the burden of proof that any award of temporary or permanent spousal support to the abusive spouse should not be made. In a similar spousal support proceeding where one spouse has been convicted of a violent sexual felony perpetrated against the other spouse within a specific time period, existing law prohibits an award of spousal support to the convicted spouse from the injured spouse, requires the court to order attorney's fees to be paid from community assets, authorizes the date of legal separation to be the date of the incident giving rise to the conviction or earlier, and entitles the injured spouse to 100% of the community interest in the injured spouse's retirement and pension.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 1129	California SB 1129 (20172018)	bill	Spousal support award: convictions.	enacted	Monning	7	20	5	2018-02-13	2018-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/20fbc060-a7f7-4963-a361-96ce9007523d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1129	190a467ad496bc94ac5a666848a57b1480f81c4c0d2ea57f2ecc06319e577b42	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1129 (20172018) — Spousal support award: convictions.

Existing law requires that in any proceeding for dissolution of marriage where one spouse has been convicted of an act of domestic violence against the other spouse within a specific time period, there is a rebuttable presumption affecting the burden of proof that any award of temporary or permanent spousal support to the abusive spouse should not be made. In a similar spousal support proceeding where one spouse has been convicted of a violent sexual felony perpetrated against the other spouse within a specific time period, existing law prohibits an award of spousal support to the convicted spouse from the injured spouse, requires the court to order attorney's fees to be paid from community assets, authorizes the date of legal separation to be the date of the incident giving rise to the conviction or earlier, and entitles the injured spouse to 100% of the community interest in the injured spouse's retirement and pension.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/15/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/05/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/24/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB1129 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 30–7 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB1129 Monning Concurrence — 31–7 (pass) · upper
• SB 1129 Monning Senate Third Reading By CHIU — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Monning — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2018-02-14 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
• 2018-02-22 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2018-05-14 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 4997.) (May 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-05-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 7. Page 4227.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-21 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-05-31 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-07-03 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-07-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 6703.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 5958.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 850, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/20fbc060-a7f7-4963-a361-96ce9007523d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).