---
type: "Bill"
title: "Trial court funding."
description: "Trial court funding."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 227"
citation: "California AB 227 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Trial court funding."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beall"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2007-01-29"
last_action: "2007-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81c26cb4-74cf-4769-84c5-ae2b11553b82"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB227"
source_hash: "186c3149cdd25ce41cd71161896583600eee9651dc09cde6b65f4a40eb7b2f54"
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 227 (20072008) — Trial court funding.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/29/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB227&version=20070AB22799INT)
2. **03/14/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB227&version=20070AB22798AMD)
3. **03/22/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB227&version=20070AB22797AMD)
4. **10/10/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB227&version=20070AB22795CHP)
5. **AB227** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB227)
6. **06/30/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB227&version=20070AB22796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 227 BEALL Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #11 AB227 Beall — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beall — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2007-01-29** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2007-01-30** From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
- **2007-02-13** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-03-15** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-03-26** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-28** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-19** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-23** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-04-26** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1188.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-04-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-05-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2007-06-25** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2007-06-26** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-06-28** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1592.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-06-28** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2007-07-03** Withdrawn from Enrollment.
- **2007-07-03** Action rescinded whereby the bill was ordered to enrollment.
- **2007-07-03** Ordered returned to Senate.
- **2007-07-03** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2007-08-30** Ordered returned to Assembly.
- **2007-08-30** In Assembly.
- **2007-08-30** Ordered returned to enrollment.
- **2007-09-06** Enrolled and to the Governor at 6 p.m.
- **2007-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 383, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81c26cb4-74cf-4769-84c5-ae2b11553b82`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).