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Bill	Domestic violence: victims: address confidentiality.	Existing law establishes an address confidentiality program for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or dependent adult abuse, commonly known as the Safe at Home program, under which an adult person, or a guardian on behalf of a minor or an incapacitated person, states that they are a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or dependent adult abuse, and designates the Secretary of State as the agent for service of process and receipt of mail. Under existing law, when the Secretary of State certifies the person as a program participant, the person's actual address is confidential.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 277	California AB 277 (20212022)	bill	Domestic violence: victims: address confidentiality.	enacted	Valladares	7	26	8	2021-01-19	2021-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/c6ed10df-91ea-4b34-85f7-4261d29fec12	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB277	fe23feecf444b530bd27d4b8df8526bf3af8d7cd1d36130537b2884f1be83cc5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 277 (20212022) — Domestic violence: victims: address confidentiality.

Existing law establishes an address confidentiality program for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or dependent adult abuse, commonly known as the Safe at Home program, under which an adult person, or a guardian on behalf of a minor or an incapacitated person, states that they are a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or dependent adult abuse, and designates the Secretary of State as the agent for service of process and receipt of mail. Under existing law, when the Secretary of State certifies the person as a program participant, the person's actual address is confidential.

Version chain

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

1. 01/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/25/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/24/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/04/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB277 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/09/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 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, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 277 Valladares Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB277 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 277 Valladares Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Valladares — primary (person)
• Davies — author (person)
• Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-01-20 From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
• 2021-01-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-02-25 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
• 2021-03-01 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-03-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-04-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1150.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-04-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-05-12 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-05-24 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
• 2021-06-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-21 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2388.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2841.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 457, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6ed10df-91ea-4b34-85f7-4261d29fec12. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).