Bill Text: CA AB2681 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Domestic violence: restraining order Hope Cards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-21 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 22. [AB2681 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2681-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2681
| Introduced by Assembly Member Limón |
February 20, 2020 |
An act relating to domestic violence.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2681, as introduced, Limón.
Domestic violence: restraining order Hope Cards.
Existing law prohibits the traumatic infliction of corporal injury upon a spouse or cohabitant, former spouse of cohabitant, and other specified persons. Existing law requires a peace officer responding to specified incidents involving domestic violence to make a custodial arrest when probable cause exists.
Existing law authorizes a peace officer to request an emergency protective order in these cases, and for a judicial officer to approve the issuance of such an order, on an ex parte basis. Existing law authorizes a person to petition for, and a judicial officer, after notice and hearing, to issue, a domestic violence prevention order. Existing law also authorizes a judicial officer to issue a protective order as part of a judgment entered in a proceeding for dissolution of marriage, nullity of marriage, or legal separation.
Existing law requires these orders to be entered into the Domestic Violence Restraining
Order System, an electronic database that can be accessed by law enforcement officers through the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation creating a program for the issuance of domestic violence restraining order Hope Cards, which provide protected persons with an easy to carry summary of a valid protective order that can be shown to police in case of a violation.
