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Rules and Forms | Protective Orders: Civil Restraining Order Forms to Implement Senate Bill 899 (Action Required)
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Summary
Summary
The Civil and Small Claims Advisory Committee recommends adopting 15 protective order forms and revising 37 protective order forms to implement significant changes to the law and to make other clarifying corrections. Changes are needed to civil harassment, elder or dependent adult abuse, gun violence, postsecondary school violence, and workplace violence restraining orders to implement Senate Bill 899 (Stats. 2024, ch. 554). The committee's recommendations to implement SB 899 are made in this report and in the reports entitled Protective Orders: Civil Harassment Forms to Implement Senate Bill 554 and Protective Orders: Postsecondary School Violence Forms to Implement Assembly Bill 2096.
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Recommendation
Recommendation
To implement SB 899, make clarifying corrections, and make the forms more user-friendly, the Civil and Small Claims Advisory Committee recommends that the Judicial Council, effective January 1, 2026:
1. Adopt the following forms:
* Prohibited Items Finding and Orders (form CH-820);
* Noncompliance With Firearms, Firearm Parts, and Ammunition Order
(form CH-830);
* Notice of Compliance Hearing for Firearms, Firearm Parts, and Ammunition (form CH-840);
* Permission to Have Firearm or Ammunition for Work (form CH-850);
* Prohibited Items Finding and Orders (form EA-820);
* Noncompliance With Firearms, Firearm Parts, and Ammunition Order
(form EA-830);
* Notice of Compliance Hearing for Firearms, Firearm Parts, and Ammunition (form EA-840);
* Permission to Have Firearm or Ammunition for Work (form EA-850);
* Prohibited Items Finding and Orders (form GV-820);
* Noncompliance With Firearms, Firearm Parts, Ammunition, and Magazines Order (form GV-830);
* Notice of Compliance Hearing for Firearms, Firearm Parts, Ammunition, and Magazines (form GV-840);
* Prohibited Items Finding and Orders (form WV-82...
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