---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Victim Compensation Board: claim."
description: "Existing law requires the California Victim Compensation Board, in cases in which evidence shows that a crime with which a claimant was charged was either not committed at all, or not committed by the claimant, to report the facts of the case and its conclusions to the Legislature with a recommendation that the Legislature make an appropriation for the purpose of indemnifying the claimant for the injury."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1897"
citation: "California AB 1897 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["California Victim Compensation Board: claim."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Appropriations"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6465f6eb-c2f9-4b34-b601-1acab0310ec9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1897"
source_hash: "3e329e16ffed6d17afe18dca3dc67912e7dd4efab08c1099c0c7960431508362"
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 1897 (20172018) — California Victim Compensation Board: claim.

Existing law requires the California Victim Compensation Board, in cases in which evidence shows that a crime with which a claimant was charged was either not committed at all, or not committed by the claimant, to report the facts of the case and its conclusions to the Legislature with a recommendation that the Legislature make an appropriation for the purpose of indemnifying the claimant for the injury.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/22/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1897&version=20170AB189799INT)
2. **06/19/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1897&version=20170AB189798AMD)
3. **09/17/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1897&version=20170AB189796CHP)
4. **AB1897** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1897)
5. **08/29/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1897&version=20170AB189797ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1897 APPR. Third Reading Urgency By GONZALEZ FLETCHER — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1897 APPR. (Gonzalez Fletcher) By Portantino Urgency Clause — **27–12** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Appropriations — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-01-23** From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
- **2018-02-05** Referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-06-20** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-27** Coauthors revised.
- **2018-06-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-07-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6063.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-07-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-08-08** Referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-28** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 12. Page 5909.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2018-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-09-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 429, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6465f6eb-c2f9-4b34-b601-1acab0310ec9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).