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type: "Bill"
title: "Family justice centers."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2137"
citation: "California AB 2137 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Family justice centers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-02-15"
last_action: "2022-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4d790d7-055c-4c9f-8da0-db23f0121d73"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2137"
source_hash: "df6c4c9665ab18b41d03d3555394acbde03dc98dd149ccfc26a06c277fff7514"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# 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.
1. **02/15/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2137&version=20210AB213799INT)
2. **03/30/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2137&version=20210AB213798AMD)
3. **06/20/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2137&version=20210AB213796CHP)
4. **AB2137** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2137)
5. **06/10/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2137&version=20210AB213797ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **50** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar AB2137 — **380** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **70** (pass) · lower
- AB 2137 Maienschein Consent Calendar Second Day — **680** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4d790d7-055c-4c9f-8da0-db23f0121d73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).