republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20072008/ab-2597.md

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Bill	State claims.	State claims.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20072008	AB 2597	California AB 2597 (20072008)	bill appropriation	State claims.	enacted	Leno	5	18	4	2008-02-22	2008-06-23	openstates	ocd-bill/5edc66aa-b41b-46ad-ac56-13c0baf1dd8f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2597	37d58ee603cda92ecffcd45a19ba610a679da5753aa62118f306725f54c1a335	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2597 (20072008) — State claims.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/08 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/08 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/23/08 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2597 (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/10/08 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 2597 LENO Third Reading Urgency — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB2597 Leno By Torlakson — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Leno — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2008-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2008-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2008-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2008-03-10 Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2008-03-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee
• 2008-03-11 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2008-04-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2008-04-10 Read second time. To third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2008-04-14 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4624.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2008-04-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. reading-1
• 2008-04-24 Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2008-05-06 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) . committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2008-05-07 Read second time. To third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2008-06-09 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4094.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2008-06-09 In Assembly. To enrollment.
• 2008-06-12 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:15 p.m.
• 2008-06-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2008-06-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 37, Statutes of 2008.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5edc66aa-b41b-46ad-ac56-13c0baf1dd8f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).