California Victim Compensation Board: reimbursement for personal or technological safety devices or services.
Existing law generally provides for the compensation of victims and derivative victims of specified types of crimes by the California Victim Compensation Board from the Restitution Fund, which is continuously appropriated to the board. Existing law authorizes the board to grant for pecuniary loss, when the board determines that it will best aid the person seeking compensation, as specified. Existing law authorizes the board to reimburse the amount of outpatient psychiatric, psychological, or other mental health counseling-related expenses incurred by the victim or derivative victim, including peer counseling services provided by a rape crisis center and family psychiatric, psychological, or mental health counseling for the successful treatment of the victim provided to family members of the victim in the presence of the victim, subject to specified criteria.
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California Legislature
20232024
AB 1187
California AB 1187 (20232024)
bill
appropriation
California Victim Compensation Board
reimbursement for personal or technological safety devices or services
California AB 1187 (20232024) — California Victim Compensation Board: reimbursement for personal or technological safety devices or services.
Existing law generally provides for the compensation of victims and derivative victims of specified types of crimes by the California Victim Compensation Board from the Restitution Fund, which is continuously appropriated to the board. Existing law authorizes the board to grant for pecuniary loss, when the board determines that it will best aid the person seeking compensation, as specified. Existing law authorizes the board to reimburse the amount of outpatient psychiatric, psychological, or other mental health counseling-related expenses incurred by the victim or derivative victim, including peer counseling services provided by a rape crisis center and family psychiatric, psychological, or mental health counseling for the successful treatment of the victim provided to family members of the victim in the presence of the victim, subject to specified criteria.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Quirk-Silva — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2023-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2023-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
2023-03-02 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2023-03-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2023-04-04 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2023-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2023-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2023-05-03 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2023-05-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 10). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2023-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 1739.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2023-06-07 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
2023-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2023-07-03 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2023-07-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2023-09-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 2376.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-09-05 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2023-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 468, Statutes of 2023. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6e88b7ec-fb41-4de0-b741-8e507fb28dcd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).