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Bill	Restitution: priority.	The California Constitution entitles the victim of a crime to restitution. Existing law requires the court in each criminal case to order a convicted defendant to pay full restitution to the victim and a separate restitution fine, as specified. Existing law makes a restitution order in a case in which a victim suffered economic loss as a result of the defendant's conduct, as specified, enforceable as if it were a civil judgment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 1213	California AB 1213 (20252026)	bill	Restitution priority	enacted	Stefani	6	26	6	2025-02-21	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/83f85657-1d7e-4ca3-8b89-d5017f6e3af8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1213	09e17357318ca418e2978da64e5eb1bd4b8ab406954ecb6042cb3bb8e501ff36	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1213 (20252026) — Restitution: priority.

The California Constitution entitles the victim of a crime to restitution. Existing law requires the court in each criminal case to order a convicted defendant to pay full restitution to the victim and a separate restitution fine, as specified. Existing law makes a restitution order in a case in which a victim suffered economic loss as a result of the defendant's conduct, as specified, enforceable as if it were a civil judgment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/03/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1213 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1213 Stefani Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1213 Stefani Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1213 Stefani By Caballero — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Stefani — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2025-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2025-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2025-03-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-03-19 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
• 2025-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-24 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1387.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-14 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-06-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-06-23 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-06-24 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-27 From Consent Calendar.
• 2025-06-27 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-07-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2389.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-04 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2911.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 184, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/83f85657-1d7e-4ca3-8b89-d5017f6e3af8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).