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Bill	State claims: California Victim Compensation Board.	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 631	California SB 631 (20212022)	bill appropriation	State claims: California Victim Compensation Board.	enacted	Portantino	5	22	4	2021-02-19	2021-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/f170bd42-98b4-4fcd-8a0c-0fe988afb4bf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB631	2ad07562a8d65708bac7350542a55f32d912b12bdfbb3cb81eb93800fc7cdfc6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 631 (20212022) — State claims: California Victim Compensation Board.

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.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/16/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB631 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/03/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 631 Portantino Third Reading Urgency By Lorena Gonzalez — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-03-03 Referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-21 Set for hearing August 16.
• 2021-08-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 2045.) (August 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-19 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2073.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-19 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-08-23 Referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-08-23 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 14. Page 2453.)
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-01 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2610.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-01 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2021-09-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 185, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f170bd42-98b4-4fcd-8a0c-0fe988afb4bf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).