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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "California Victim Compensation Board: claim."
+description: "Existing law requires the California Victim Compensation Board, in cases in which evidence shows that a crime with which a claimant was charged was either not committed at all, or not committed by the claimant, to report the facts of the case and its conclusions to the Legislature with a recommendation that the Legislature make an appropriation for the purpose of indemnifying the claimant for the injury."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 1897"
+citation: "California AB 1897 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
+subjects: ["California Victim Compensation Board: claim."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Appropriations"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2018-01-22"
+last_action: "2018-09-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6465f6eb-c2f9-4b34-b601-1acab0310ec9"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1897"
+source_hash: "3e329e16ffed6d17afe18dca3dc67912e7dd4efab08c1099c0c7960431508362"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 1897 (20172018) — California Victim Compensation Board: claim.
+
+Existing law requires the California Victim Compensation Board, in cases in which evidence shows that a crime with which a claimant was charged was either not committed at all, or not committed by the claimant, to report the facts of the case and its conclusions to the Legislature with a recommendation that the Legislature make an appropriation for the purpose of indemnifying the claimant for the injury.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **01/22/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1897&version=20170AB189799INT)
+2. **06/19/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1897&version=20170AB189798AMD)
+3. **09/17/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1897&version=20170AB189796CHP)
+4. **AB1897** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1897)
+5. **08/29/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1897&version=20170AB189797ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 1897 APPR. Third Reading Urgency By GONZALEZ FLETCHER — **74–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading AB1897 APPR. (Gonzalez Fletcher) By Portantino Urgency Clause — **27–12** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Committee on Appropriations — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-23** From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
+- **2018-02-05** Referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-06-20** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-27** Coauthors revised.
+- **2018-06-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-07-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6063.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-07-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2018-08-08** Referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-08-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-28** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 12. Page 5909.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2018-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2018-09-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-09-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 429, Statutes of 2018.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6465f6eb-c2f9-4b34-b601-1acab0310ec9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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