CA AB 2179

introduced

Workplace violence: restraining orders.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law authorizes any employer or authorized bargaining representative, as specified, whose employee has suffered unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence that can reasonably be construed to be carried out or to have been carried out at the workplace, to seek a temporary restraining order and an order after hearing on behalf of the employee and other employees at the workplace, as described. This bill would, beginning on July 1, 2027, allow any party or witness to a petition for a restraining order to appear remotely at a hearing and would prohibit any fee for appearing remotely. The bill would require the court of each county to develop rules and instructions for such remote appearances and post them on its website. The bill would also, commencing on July 1, 2027, require courts to allow filings related to such protective orders to be submitted electronically, as specified. The bill would make conforming changes.

Introduced: 2026-06-01
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-06-16 — Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2026-02-19
Read first time. To print.
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2026-02-20
From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
2026-03-09
Referred to Com. on JUD.
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2026-03-24
Coauthors revised.
2026-03-24
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-04-15
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 15).
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2026-04-16
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-05-07
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 4959.)
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2026-05-07
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-05-20
Referred to Com. on JUD.
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2026-06-01
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2026-06-10
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-06-15
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
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2026-06-16
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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Versions

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06/01/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-06-01Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-03-24 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (12)
- Zbur: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Papan: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Sanchez: yes
Do pass.
2026-04-15 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Dixon: yes
- Fong: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Krell: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Ta: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pellerin: other
- Muratsuchi: other
AB 2179 Patel Assembly Third Reading
2026-05-07 · pass · 70-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Fong: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Patel: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Davies: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Haney: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Addis: yes
- Bains: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Ward: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Berman: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ta: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Soria: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Solache: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Hoover: other
- Wicks: other
- Chen: other
- Bonta: other
- Hart: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Arambula: other
- Wallis: other
- Petrie-Norris: other
- Flora: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-06-09 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Wahab: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Laird: yes
- Allen: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Niello: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Stern: other

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