---
type: "Bill"
title: "Victim's compensation: claims: appeal."
description: "Existing law generally provides for the compensation of victims and derivative victims of specified types of crimes by the California Victim Compensation Board and requires the board to grant a hearing to an applicant who contests a staff recommendation to deny compensation in whole or part. Existing law requires decisions of the board to be made in writing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1563"
citation: "California AB 1563 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Victim's compensation: claims: appeal."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-01-04"
last_action: "2016-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fdd7f22-d1ee-41a1-b337-b4f10696c0e6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1563"
source_hash: "9249170fc10e87fc841017e6d27c944df8367e41ad09595bba8d8c921adcaddb"
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 1563 (20152016) — Victim's compensation: claims: appeal.

Existing law generally provides for the compensation of victims and derivative victims of specified types of crimes by the California Victim Compensation Board and requires the board to grant a hearing to an applicant who contests a staff recommendation to deny compensation in whole or part. Existing law requires decisions of the board to be made in writing.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/04/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1563&version=20150AB156399INT)
2. **05/24/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1563&version=20150AB156398AMD)
3. **08/17/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1563&version=20150AB156396CHP)
4. **AB1563** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1563)
5. **08/02/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1563&version=20150AB156397ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1563 RODRIGUEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1563 RODRIGUEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-01-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-01-05** From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
- **2016-02-01** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4360.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-04-28** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-20** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2016-06-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4646.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5635.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2016-08-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-08-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 121, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6fdd7f22-d1ee-41a1-b337-b4f10696c0e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).