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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Unclaimed property: secure payment of claims."
+description: "The Unclaimed Property Law governs the disposition of unclaimed property, including the escheat of certain property to the state. Those provisions require a person holding funds or other property escheated to the state to report to the Controller certain information regarding the property and the owner, and set forth procedures whereby a person may file a claim to the property or to the net proceeds from its sale."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "AB 1208"
+citation: "California AB 1208 (20212022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Unclaimed property: secure payment of claims."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ting"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2021-02-19"
+last_action: "2022-09-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4609d9cb-a9ad-45e0-8933-19aaa2443a59"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1208"
+source_hash: "f1fcb12905194eab0e15d072e594d3a0a6f719adcfed5b42bf1862bd2d60ab9a"
+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 1208 (20212022) — Unclaimed property: secure payment of claims.
+
+The Unclaimed Property Law governs the disposition of unclaimed property, including the escheat of certain property to the state. Those provisions require a person holding funds or other property escheated to the state to report to the Controller certain information regarding the property and the owner, and set forth procedures whereby a person may file a claim to the property or to the net proceeds from its sale.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/19/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1208&version=20210AB120899INT)
+2. **09/13/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1208&version=20210AB120897CHP)
+3. **AB1208** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1208)
+4. **08/25/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1208&version=20210AB120898ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Special Consent AB1208 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Placed on suspense file — **4–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 1208 Ting Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ting — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-19** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
+- **2021-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
+- **2021-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
+- **2021-03-04** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-06-01** Action rescinded and record expunged whereby a roll call vote was taken.
+- **2021-06-03** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Ting.
+- **2022-01-20** Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Ting.
+- **2022-01-24** From inactive file.
+- **2022-01-24** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2022-01-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3432.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2022-05-04** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 31). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-20** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-08-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2022-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4975.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2022-08-23** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2022-08-26** Enrolled measure version corrected.
+- **2022-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2022-09-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-09-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 270, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4609d9cb-a9ad-45e0-8933-19aaa2443a59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+