republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-374.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Protective orders: reproductive coercion."
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. 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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 374"
citation: "California SB 374 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Protective orders: reproductive coercion."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Min"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-10"
last_action: "2021-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99621102-19a6-49a3-80d2-4bc98bd2b28a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB374"
source_hash: "020bdfb35898a27ba868b3669dbf008ce34526b46879c9d2623370ee6e73c251"
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 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.

1. **02/10/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB374&version=20210SB37499INT)
2. **03/05/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB374&version=20210SB37498AMD)
3. **03/15/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB374&version=20210SB37497AMD)
4. **04/20/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB374&version=20210SB37496AMD)
5. **07/23/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB374&version=20210SB37494CHP)
6. **SB374** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB374)
7. **07/14/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB374&version=20210SB37495ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–1** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB374 Min et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 374 Min Senate Third Reading By Petrie-Norris — **56–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Min — primary (person)
- Becker — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Cortese — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Rubio — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-10** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-11** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
- **2021-02-17** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2021-02-22** (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
- **2021-02-22** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
- **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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99621102-19a6-49a3-80d2-4bc98bd2b28a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).