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type: "Bill"
title: "Domestic Violence Prevention Act: attorney's fees and costs."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2369"
citation: "California AB 2369 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Domestic Violence Prevention Act: attorney's fees and costs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-02-16"
last_action: "2022-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d303a3c-ecbd-401a-8414-432e86c9d267"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2369"
source_hash: "efb0d76d057d2c797bf455748138034d09a3f2be476f9070b9605f738ae1edf7"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2369&version=20210AB236999INT)
2. **03/24/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2369&version=20210AB236998AMD)
3. **03/29/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2369&version=20210AB236997AMD)
4. **06/09/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2369&version=20210AB236996AMD)
5. **08/17/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2369&version=20210AB236995AMD)
6. **09/27/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2369&version=20210AB236993CHP)
7. **AB2369** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2369)
8. **09/01/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2369&version=20210AB236994ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass — **101** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **90** (pass) · lower
- AB 2369 Salas Assembly Third Reading — **730** (pass) · lower
- AB 2369 Salas Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **770** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2369 Salas et al. By Rubio — **360** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d303a3c-ecbd-401a-8414-432e86c9d267`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).