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Bill	Claims against the state: appropriation.	Existing law requires the Attorney General, when there is not a sufficient appropriation for the payment of certain claims, settlements, or judgments, to report the claims, settlements, and judgments to the chairperson of either the Senate Committee on Appropriations or the Assembly Committee on Appropriations, who is then required to cause introduction of legislation appropriating necessary funds for payment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 939	California SB 939 (20172018)	bill appropriation	Claims against the state: appropriation.	enacted	Portantino	6	18	4	2018-01-29	2018-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/90fe670c-7c00-4ff4-9a75-4b75ffb124c7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB939	8882352ba57b3a4512d726886b889e53fceb727f77cc347585add1feec843d2f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 939 (20172018) — Claims against the state: appropriation.

Existing law requires the Attorney General, when there is not a sufficient appropriation for the payment of certain claims, settlements, or judgments, to report the claims, settlements, and judgments to the chairperson of either the Senate Committee on Appropriations or the Assembly Committee on Appropriations, who is then required to cause introduction of legislation appropriating necessary funds for payment.

Version chain

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

1. 01/29/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/08/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/16/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/18/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB939 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — 30–4 (pass) · upper
• SB 939 Portantino Third Reading Urgency By GONZALEZ FLETCHER — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-29 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2018-01-30 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 1.
• 2018-02-08 Referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-08-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-09 Set for hearing August 13.
• 2018-08-15 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 5298.) (August 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-27 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 4. Page 5801.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-08-28 Referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-08-28 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
• 2018-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-31 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-31 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2018-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 508, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/90fe670c-7c00-4ff4-9a75-4b75ffb124c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).