Amended  IN  Senate  August 29, 2025
Amended  IN  Senate  July 10, 2025
Amended  IN  Assembly  May 23, 2025
Amended  IN  Assembly  April 23, 2025
Amended  IN  Assembly  March 28, 2025

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 1363

Introduced by Assembly Member Stefani
(Coauthor: Senator Becker)(Coauthors: Assembly Members Petrie-Norris, Blanca Rubio, and Wicks)
(Coauthors: Senators Ashby, Becker, Blakespear, Hurtado, Rubio, and Wiener)

February 21, 2025

An act to add Section 6380.5 to the Family Code, relating to protective orders.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1363, as amended, 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 require a superior court that issued a protective order, as defined, to, upon oral or written request, make information available to the requestor, including, among other things, information demonstrating when the superior court or its designee transmitted information to the department, as specified. The bill would require the department to maintain a record demonstrating its receipt of the information transmitted about a protective order. The bill 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 is required to maintain maintains to be open to public inspection and copying. The bill would make these provisions apply to a case pending before January 1, 2026, to the extent information about a protective order is necessary to verify a superior court’s specified transmission obligations.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YESNO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares that subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 6380 of the Family Code impose a mandatory duty on the superior court to transmit a protective order issued pursuant to Division 10 (commencing with Section 6200) of the Family Code, with the exception of an order issued pursuant to Section 6271 of the Family Code, to the Department of Justice directly or through a law enforcement designee.

SEC. 2.

 Section 6380.5 is added to the Family Code, to read:

6380.5.
 (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as Wyland’s Law.

(b)(1)Upon the oral or written request of a petitioner, respondent, or protected person, or their representative, a superior court that issued a protective order shall, within one business day or, if the request is made on the same day the order is issued, within two business days, make the following information available to the requester:

(A)Information demonstrating when the superior court or its designee transmitted information to the department pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 6380.

(B)Information demonstrating when the superior court or its designee transmitted information to the department, as described in subdivision (b) of Section 6380, for an order issued pursuant to any of the following:

(i)Section 136.2 of the Penal Code.

(ii)Section 213.5, 304, or 362.4 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(iii)This division, excluding Section 6271.

(C)Information demonstrating when the superior court or its designee transmitted information to the department, as described in subdivision (b) of Section 6380, or information demonstrating that the court ordered the petitioner or the petitioner’s attorney to deliver a copy of the order to a law enforcement agency for an order issued pursuant to any of the following:

(i)Section 527.6, 527.8, or 527.85 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

(ii)Section 15657.03 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(2)If a superior court uses a designee to transmit information about a protective order to the department pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 6380, the designee shall confirm to the superior court, within one business day, that it transmitted information about the protective order to the department pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 6380, and the superior court shall maintain the record from the designee that the information about the protective order was transmitted to the department.

(c)The department shall maintain a record demonstrating receipt of the information about a protective order transmitted to the department pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 6380.

(d)

(b) Subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, the department may establish, or contract with a vendor to establish, an automated protected person information and notification system to provide a petitioner or protected person in a protective order case with automated access to information maintained in the California Restraining and Protective Order System about their case, which shall include all of the following:
(1) Whether the department has received a record of the protective order.
(2) If the protective order has been successfully served on the restrained person.
(3) Notwithstanding any other law, if the restrained person has violated the protective order by attempting to purchase or acquire a firearm or ammunition while the order is in effect.

(e)

(c) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, a record demonstrating whether the superior court has fulfilled its transmission obligations under this section or pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 6380 is required to be open to public inspection and copying.
(2) Notwithstanding any other law, a record demonstrating receipt of information about a protective order that the department maintains pursuant to subdivision (c) is a public record that is not exempt from disclosure in response to a public record request made pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Division 10 (commencing with Section 7920.000) of Title 1 of the Government Code).

(3)This subdivision applies to a case pending before January 1, 2026, to the extent that information about a protective order is necessary to verify a superior court’s transmission obligations under this section or pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 6380.

(4)

(3) Paragraph (2) of this subdivision does not constitute a change in, but is declaratory of, existing law.

(f)

(d) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Department” means the Department of Justice.
(2) “Protective order” includes all order types listed in Section 6380 and the reissuance, extension, modification, or termination of the order.