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 |Add To My Favorites |Track Bill | Version: 07/02/26 - Amended Senate
 06/17/26 - Amended Senate
 05/18/26 - Amended Assembly
 04/16/26 - Amended Assembly
 03/24/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/09/26 - Introduced

 AB-1753 Protective orders: firearms and ammunition: notice and procedures.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/02/2026 09:00 PM

AB1753:v94#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 July 02, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 17, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 18, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 16, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 24, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1753

Introduced by Assembly Member Stefani
(Principal coauthor: Senator Blakespear)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Caloza, Connolly, Ortega, Kalra, Papan, Pellerin, Quirk-Silva, Schiavo, and Zbur)

February 09, 2026

 An act to amend Sections 527, 527.8, 527.85, 527.9, 527.11, and 527.12 of, and to add Section 527.13 to, the Code of Civil Procedure, to amend Sections 6300, 6380, 6380.5, 6383, 6401, and 6402 of, and to add Section 6403.5 to, the Family Code, to amend, repeal, and add Section 26666.10 of the Government Code, and to amend Sections 273.75, 422.85, 422.865, 422.88, 16520, 18120, 18120.5, 18205, 29805, and 29825 of, and to add Sections 136.26 and 29813.5 to, the Penal Code, relating to protective orders. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1753, as amended, Stefani.
 Protective orders: firearms and ammunition: notice and procedures.

(1) Existing law establishes procedures by which a person may petition the court for certain protective or restraining orders, including civil harassment restraining orders, domestic violence restraining orders, elder or dependent adult abuse restraining orders, gun violence restraining orders, postsecondary school restraining orders, and workplace violence restraining orders, to enjoin a restrained person from taking specified actions. Before a hearing on the issuance or denial of a domestic violence restraining order or gun violence restraining order, existing law requires the court to ensure that a search has been conducted to determine, among other things, if the subject of the proposed order owns or possesses a firearm as reflected in the Department of Justice Automated Firearms System. If after the search, the court finds that the subject of the proposed
 order owns or possesses a firearm, existing law requires the court to make a written record as to whether the subject has relinquished the firearm and provided proof of the required storage, sale, or relinquishment of the firearm. Upon a court’s issuance of such a protective order, existing law requires the restrained person to relinquish any firearm and ammunition in that person’s immediate possession or control, according to specified procedures. Existing law prescribes procedures by which the restrained person must certify compliance with the court, and for the court to determine, by a preponderance of the evidence, whether the person has a firearm in violation of the order.

This bill would make clarifying and conforming changes to the procedures relating to the protective or restraining orders described above by explicitly requiring the restrained person to relinquish, in addition to any firearm, any ammunition in that person’s immediate possession or control.
 The bill, commencing January 1, 2028, would require courts to permit a party or witness to appear remotely at a hearing for a postsecondary educational institution or workplace violence restraining order at no cost. This bill would also require courts to develop rules and instructions for such remote appearances and to post them on their internet websites.

(2) Existing law prohibits court from granting a temporary restraining order without notice to the respondent, except as specified. Existing law requires a peace officer, upon the request of a petitioner, to serve any civil harassment restraining order, domestic violence restraining order, elder or dependent adult abuse restraining order, gun violence restraining order, postsecondary school restraining order, or workplace violence restraining order on the respondent, whether or not the respondent has been taken into custody. Existing law prescribes procedures that a sheriff or marshal must
 follow when servi