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Bill	Domestic violence: restraining orders.	Existing law authorizes a court to issue a restraining order to a person to prevent abuse, as specified, based on reasonable proof of a past act or acts of abuse. Existing law authorizes the order to be issued solely on the affidavit or testimony of the person requesting the restraining order. Existing law prohibits an ex parte restraining order from being denied solely because the other party was not provided notice.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2024	California AB 2024 (20232024)	bill	Domestic violence restraining orders	enacted	Pacheco	6	22	7	2024-02-01	2024-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/a6865441-3f89-4edf-9123-884585f54041	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2024	c396d8008bd9a4d43be5e8b1dc08976ebfb33358e9e106b84c059e06e4408401	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2024 (20232024) — Domestic violence: restraining orders.

Existing law authorizes a court to issue a restraining order to a person to prevent abuse, as specified, based on reasonable proof of a past act or acts of abuse. Existing law authorizes the order to be issued solely on the affidavit or testimony of the person requesting the restraining order. Existing law prohibits an ex parte restraining order from being denied solely because the other party was not provided notice.

Version chain

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

1. 02/01/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/27/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2024 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/24 - 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
• AB 2024 Pacheco Assembly Third Reading — 66–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2024 Pacheco Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pacheco — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-01 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-02 From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
• 2024-02-12 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-03-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 12). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-03-14 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-03-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-03-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 4476.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-03-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-01 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-05-16 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
• 2024-06-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-17 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 648, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a6865441-3f89-4edf-9123-884585f54041. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).