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Bill	Domestic Violence Prevention Act: attorney's fees and costs.	Existing law establishes the Domestic Violence Prevention Act for the purpose of preventing acts of domestic violence, abuse, and sexual abuse and providing for a separation of the persons involved in the domestic violence for a period sufficient to enable those persons to seek a resolution of the causes of the violence. Existing law authorizes a court to issue a protective order enjoining a party from engaging in specified acts, including threatening or harassing the other party or disturbing the peace of the other party.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2369	California AB 2369 (20212022)	bill	Domestic Violence Prevention Act: attorney's fees and costs.	enacted	Salas	8	24	5	2022-02-16	2022-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/8d303a3c-ecbd-401a-8414-432e86c9d267	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2369	efb0d76d057d2c797bf455748138034d09a3f2be476f9070b9605f738ae1edf7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2369 (20212022) — Domestic Violence Prevention Act: attorney's fees and costs.

Existing law establishes the Domestic Violence Prevention Act for the purpose of preventing acts of domestic violence, abuse, and sexual abuse and providing for a separation of the persons involved in the domestic violence for a period sufficient to enable those persons to seek a resolution of the causes of the violence. Existing law authorizes a court to issue a protective order enjoining a party from engaging in specified acts, including threatening or harassing the other party or disturbing the peace of the other party.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/29/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/09/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/17/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/27/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2369 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 10–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2369 Salas Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2369 Salas Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2369 Salas et al. By Rubio — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Salas — primary (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2022-03-24 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-03-24 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
• 2022-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-03-29 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
• 2022-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-04-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4817.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-06-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-06-09 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
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (June 21). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-17 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5180.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 591, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8d303a3c-ecbd-401a-8414-432e86c9d267. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).