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AB-1363 • 2026

Protective orders: Wyland’s Law.

Protective orders: Wyland’s Law.

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Stefani
Last action
2025-10-10
Official status
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 574, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Wyland’s Law: Protective Orders Information System

This law allows the Department of Justice to create an automated system for people involved in protective order cases to access information about their case, and requires certain records related to these orders to be open to public inspection.

What This Bill Does

  • Authorizes the Department of Justice to establish or contract with a vendor to build an automated system that provides petitioners or protected persons in protective order cases with access to information about their cases.
  • Requires records demonstrating whether courts have fulfilled their transmission obligations for protective orders and records showing receipt of such orders by the Department of Justice to be open to public inspection.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People who are petitioners or protected persons in protective order cases
  • Courts that issue protective orders
  • The Department of Justice

Terms To Know

Protective order
A court order that helps protect someone from being hurt by another person.
Automated system
A computer program or set of programs that can do tasks without needing a lot of human help.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The law requires legislative appropriation to be effective.
  • Details about how the automated system will work are left up to the Department of Justice and any companies they might hire.

Bill History

  1. 2025-10-10 California Legislative Information

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 574, Statutes of 2025.

  2. 2025-10-10 California Legislative Information

    Approved by the Governor.

  3. 2025-09-24 California Legislative Information

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

  4. 2025-09-12 California Legislative Information

    Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3420.).

  5. 2025-09-12 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  6. 2025-09-11 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2931.).

  7. 2025-09-09 California Legislative Information

    Ordered to special consent calendar.

  8. 2025-09-02 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  9. 2025-08-29 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

  10. 2025-08-29 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).

  11. 2025-08-18 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Referred to suspense file.

  12. 2025-07-15 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  13. 2025-07-10 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

  14. 2025-07-09 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 8).

  15. 2025-06-25 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  16. 2025-06-11 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S.

  17. 2025-06-03 California Legislative Information

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  18. 2025-06-02 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1923.)

  19. 2025-05-27 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  20. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

  21. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).

  22. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)

  23. 2025-05-14 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  24. 2025-04-24 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  25. 2025-04-23 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended.

  26. 2025-04-22 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 22).

  27. 2025-04-01 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

  28. 2025-03-28 California Legislative Information

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended.

  29. 2025-03-28 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on JUD.

  30. 2025-02-24 California Legislative Information

    Read first time.

  31. 2025-02-22 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.

  32. 2025-02-21 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1363, Stefani.
Protective orders: Wyland’s Law.
Existing law requires each county to develop a procedure for electronically transmitting, upon the issuance of certain types of protective orders, the contents of the order and other specified information to the Department of Justice through the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System. Existing law also requires the department to maintain a California Restraining and Protective Order System and to make specified information electronically available to court clerks and law enforcement personnel.
This bill, Wyland’s Law, would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, authorize the department to establish, or contract with a vendor to establish, an automated protected person information and notification system to provide a petitioner or a protected person in a protective order case with automated access to information about their case, as specified. The bill would require a record demonstrating whether the superior court has fulfilled its transmission obligations or a record demonstrating receipt of information about a protective order that the department maintains to be open to public inspection and copying.

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