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. Existing law defines "disturbing the peace of the other party" as conduct that destroys the mental or emotional calm of the other party, including coercive control, which is a pattern of behavior that unreasonably interferes with a person's free will and personal liberty and includes, among other things, unreasonably isolating a victim from friends, relatives, or other sources of support. A knowing and intentional violation of a protective order is punishable as a misdemeanor.
California SB 374 (20212022) — Protective orders: reproductive coercion.
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. Existing law defines "disturbing the peace of the other party" as conduct that destroys the mental or emotional calm of the other party, including coercive control, which is a pattern of behavior that unreasonably interferes with a person's free will and personal liberty and includes, among other things, unreasonably isolating a victim from friends, relatives, or other sources of support. A knowing and intentional violation of a protective order is punishable as a misdemeanor.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
2021-03-05 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-03-11 Set for hearing March 23.
2021-03-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-03-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 591.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-03-25 Set for hearing April 5.
2021-04-05 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2021-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-04-20 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-04-20 Ordered to second reading.
2021-04-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-04-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 971.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-04-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2021-05-13 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2021-06-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-06-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 30). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-07-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 56. Noes 0. Page 2312.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-07-12 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2021-07-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2021-07-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2021-07-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 135, Statutes of 2021. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/99621102-19a6-49a3-80d2-4bc98bd2b28a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).