Existing law authorizes a city, county, city and county, or community-based nonprofit organization to establish a family justice center to assist victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, elder or dependent adult abuse, and human trafficking, to ensure that victims of abuse are able to access all needed services in one location in order to enhance victim safety, increase offender accountability, and improve access to services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, elder or dependent adult abuse, and human trafficking.
California AB 2137 (20212022) — Family justice centers.
Existing law authorizes a city, county, city and county, or community-based nonprofit organization to establish a family justice center to assist victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, elder or dependent adult abuse, and human trafficking, to ensure that victims of abuse are able to access all needed services in one location in order to enhance victim safety, increase offender accountability, and improve access to services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, elder or dependent adult abuse, and human trafficking.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
Consent Calendar AB2137 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
AB 2137 Maienschein Consent Calendar Second Day — 68–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Maienschein — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2022-02-15 Introduced. To print. introduction
2022-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
2022-02-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2022-03-29 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2022-03-30 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-1, reading-2
2022-03-31 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2022-04-06 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-04-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2022-04-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4369.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-04-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2022-05-04 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2022-06-01 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (May 31). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-06-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2022-06-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4129.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-06-09 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2022-06-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2022-06-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2022-06-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 20, Statutes of 2022. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f4d790d7-055c-4c9f-8da0-db23f0121d73. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).