---
type: "Bill"
title: "Victims of crime: nonimmigrant status."
description: "Existing federal law provides a Form I-914, Petition for T Nonimmigrant Status (Form I-914) to request temporary immigration benefits for a person who is a victim of certain qualifying criminal activity. Existing federal law also provides a form for certifying that a person submitting a Form I-914 is a victim of human trafficking and a declaration as to cooperation by the person regarding investigating or prosecuting trafficking (Form I-914 Supplement B) ."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2027"
citation: "California AB 2027 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Victims of crime: nonimmigrant status."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2016-02-16"
last_action: "2016-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f01aa84a-c119-4063-821a-3ce8699db73f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2027"
source_hash: "412e9fcb2314b77dc73a4606225920da61239a9bc28f83ed46c608889eace266"
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 2027 (20152016) — Victims of crime: nonimmigrant status.

Existing federal law provides a Form I-914, Petition for T Nonimmigrant Status (Form I-914) to request temporary immigration benefits for a person who is a victim of certain qualifying criminal activity. Existing federal law also provides a form for certifying that a person submitting a Form I-914 is a victim of human trafficking and a declaration as to cooperation by the person regarding investigating or prosecuting trafficking (Form I-914 Supplement B) .

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2027&version=20150AB202799INT)
2. **03/31/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2027&version=20150AB202798AMD)
3. **08/01/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2027&version=20150AB202797AMD)
4. **08/16/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2027&version=20150AB202796AMD)
5. **09/28/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2027&version=20150AB202794CHP)
6. **AB2027** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2027)
7. **08/25/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2027&version=20150AB202795ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2027 QUIRK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **73–1** (pass) · lower
- AB 2027 QUIRK Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2027 Quirk By De León — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Quirk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2016-02-29** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 29). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-03-31** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5082.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-09** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-01** 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`
- **2016-08-01** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-08-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5121.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 6190.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 749, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f01aa84a-c119-4063-821a-3ce8699db73f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).