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Bill	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1897	California AB 1897 (20172018)	bill appropriation	California Victim Compensation Board: claim.	enacted	Committee on Appropriations	5	18	4	2018-01-22	2018-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/6465f6eb-c2f9-4b34-b601-1acab0310ec9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1897	3e329e16ffed6d17afe18dca3dc67912e7dd4efab08c1099c0c7960431508362	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. 06/19/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/17/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1897 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/6465f6eb-c2f9-4b34-b601-1acab0310ec9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).