republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/sb-1479.md

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Bill	Crime victims: restitution.	Existing law requires the court to order defendants convicted of any crime to pay a fine in the form of a penalty, as specified. Existing law additionally requires the court to order defendants to pay restitution to the victim or victims, as well as a restitution fine. Existing law requires that a person convicted of specified crimes, including counterfeiting products and failing to disclose the origin of a recording or audiovisual work, pay restitution to the owner, lawful producer, or trade association acting on behalf of the owner or lawful producer that suffered economic loss from the violation. Under existing law, the value of each nonconforming article or device is based on the aggregate wholesale value of lawfully manufactured and authorized devices or articles from which sounds or visual images are devised, except in certain circumstances.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 1479	California SB 1479 (20112012)	bill	Crime victims: restitution.	enacted	Pavley	6	21	5	2012-02-24	2012-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/0fc2db05-44b9-4fbf-9635-843fc876fcd9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1479	abe6ed0dc688af7655fbca4dc5670279eb70afb750f9d8b316beb6a6e4516978	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1479 (20112012) — Crime victims: restitution.

Existing law requires the court to order defendants convicted of any crime to pay a fine in the form of a penalty, as specified. Existing law additionally requires the court to order defendants to pay restitution to the victim or victims, as well as a restitution fine. Existing law requires that a person convicted of specified crimes, including counterfeiting products and failing to disclose the origin of a recording or audiovisual work, pay restitution to the owner, lawful producer, or trade association acting on behalf of the owner or lawful producer that suffered economic loss from the violation. Under existing law, the value of each nonconforming article or device is based on the aggregate wholesale value of lawfully manufactured and authorized devices or articles from which sounds or visual images are devised, except in certain circumstances.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/06/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1479 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/23/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1479 Pavley Senate Third Reading By LARA — 68–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB1479 Pavley Concurrence — 36–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Pavley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-22 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-03-29 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-03-30 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3210.) (April 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-04-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3291.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-04-26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2012-05-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-06-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-06 Read third time and amended. (Page 5761.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 68. Noes 5. Page 6009.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-21 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-22 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 4699.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2012-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 873, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0fc2db05-44b9-4fbf-9635-843fc876fcd9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).