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Bill	Protective orders: elder and dependent adults.	Existing law authorizes an elder or dependent adult who has suffered abuse, or another person who is legally authorized to seek that relief on behalf of that elder or dependent adult, to seek a protective order and governs the procedures for issuing that order. Existing law defines protective order for purposes of these provisions to include an order enjoining a party from specified forms of abuse, including attacking, stalking, threatening, or harassing an elder or dependent adult, an order excluding a party from the elder or dependent adult's residence, or an order enjoining a party from specified behavior that the court determines is necessary.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1243	California AB 1243 (20212022)	bill	Protective orders: elder and dependent adults.	enacted	Blanca Rubio	8	29	7	2021-02-19	2021-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/85c71063-f27d-4efb-a24c-b8f5cf949a66	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1243	bacf99c8affb00b29d72207579f2fbf046d9c3be252e97b6e9343e97580147ef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1243 (20212022) — Protective orders: elder and dependent adults.

Existing law authorizes an elder or dependent adult who has suffered abuse, or another person who is legally authorized to seek that relief on behalf of that elder or dependent adult, to seek a protective order and governs the procedures for issuing that order. Existing law defines protective order for purposes of these provisions to include an order enjoining a party from specified forms of abuse, including attacking, stalking, threatening, or harassing an elder or dependent adult, an order excluding a party from the elder or dependent adult's residence, or an order enjoining a party from specified behavior that the court determines is necessary.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/26/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/28/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/23/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1243 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1243 Blanca Rubio Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1243 Blanca Rubio Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB1243 — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blanca Rubio — primary (person)
• Davies — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-03-04 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-04-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2021-04-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-05-04 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 4). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1534.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-03 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-06-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2021-06-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2491.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3022.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 273, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/85c71063-f27d-4efb-a24c-b8f5cf949a66. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).