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Bill	Domestic violence: protective orders.	Existing law requires a court to consider issuing a protective order restraining the defendant from contact with the victim for up to 10 years in all cases in which a criminal defendant has been convicted of certain acts of domestic violence. A violation of a protective order is punishable as contempt, a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2308	California AB 2308 (20232024)	bill	Domestic violence protective orders	enacted	Davies	7	25	8	2024-02-12	2024-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/114e8f05-5eac-4ad8-b79d-f31d01f78549	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2308	be9c98ee45d64eb6de2f2e104e3d8c305893cf09982fcb841919dac01e3fde86	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2308 (20232024) — Domestic violence: protective orders.

Existing law requires a court to consider issuing a protective order restraining the defendant from contact with the victim for up to 10 years in all cases in which a criminal defendant has been convicted of certain acts of domestic violence. A violation of a protective order is punishable as contempt, a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/24/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/15/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/21/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2308 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2308 Davies Assembly Third Reading — 67–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2308 Davies Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2308 Davies et al. By Ochoa Bogh — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Davies — primary (person)
• Stephanie Nguyen — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-13 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2024-02-26 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-04-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 5629.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-06-05 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. 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 649, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/114e8f05-5eac-4ad8-b79d-f31d01f78549. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).