---
type: "Bill"
title: "State claims."
description: "Existing law requires the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to report to the Legislature when there is no sufficient appropriation available for the payment of a claim against the state allowed by the board."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 92"
citation: "California AB 92 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["State claims."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["De Leon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2009-01-06"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47164908-3b81-4d93-bb34-006c74ac8d85"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB92"
source_hash: "9081aef3e69bccfa63429c53d1767a925a02a39b0a1ad152502e024cdc3bd838"
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 92 (20092010) — State claims.

Existing law requires the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to report to the Legislature when there is no sufficient appropriation available for the payment of a claim against the state allowed by the board.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/06/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB92&version=20090AB9299INT)
2. **05/12/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB92&version=20090AB9298AMD)
3. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB92&version=20090AB9296CHP)
4. **AB92** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB92)
5. **08/27/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB92&version=20090AB9297ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 92 DE LEON Third Reading Urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB92 De Leon Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- De Leon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-01-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-01-07** From printer. May be heard in committee February 6.
- **2009-05-11** Referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-13** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-26** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-01** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1867.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-11** Referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-01** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-24** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1919.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-08-25** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2009-08-31** Enrolled and to the Governor at 5:15 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 218, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47164908-3b81-4d93-bb34-006c74ac8d85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).