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Bill	Domestic violence: protective orders: background checks.	The Domestic Violence Prevention Act requires the court, before a hearing on the issuance or denial of a protective order, to ensure that a search of specified records and databases is or has been made to determine if the proposed subject of the order has, among other things, a registered firearm. Existing law limits the implementation of the registered firearm search requirement to courts identified by the Judicial Council as having resources currently available for those purposes. Existing law also limits the implementation of the registered firearm search requirement in other courts to the extent that funds are appropriated for those purposes in the annual Budget Act.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 3083	California AB 3083 (20232024)	bill	Domestic violence background checks protective orders	enacted	Lackey	5	22	7	2024-02-16	2024-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/799b5d48-3cca-4700-add0-0d6479c5f0e5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3083	347501f9ff19bcf2931586c92474a7482e1c91fa236f37abbfea6d9d07550b93	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 3083 (20232024) — Domestic violence: protective orders: background checks.

The Domestic Violence Prevention Act requires the court, before a hearing on the issuance or denial of a protective order, to ensure that a search of specified records and databases is or has been made to determine if the proposed subject of the order has, among other things, a registered firearm. Existing law limits the implementation of the registered firearm search requirement to courts identified by the Judicial Council as having resources currently available for those purposes. Existing law also limits the implementation of the registered firearm search requirement in other courts to the extent that funds are appropriated for those purposes in the annual Budget Act.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/03/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/24/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB3083 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/14/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB3083 Lackey et al. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 3083 Lackey Assembly Third Reading — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lackey — primary (person)
• Alanis — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2024-03-11 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-04-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 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
• 2024-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 5526.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-06-05 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-08-06 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5045.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-12 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2024-08-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2024-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 541, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/799b5d48-3cca-4700-add0-0d6479c5f0e5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).