republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-251.md

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Bill	Claims against the state: appropriation.	Under existing law, if sufficient appropriations are not available for the payment of certain claims, settlements, or judgments, the Attorney General is required 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 the funds necessary for payment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 251	California SB 251 (20252026)	bill appropriation	Claimsagainstthestate appropriation	enacted	Caballero	6	21	4	2025-02-03	2025-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/de44dbef-d587-4830-8c25-f3ffcfcf5758	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB251	5bf22cd83f6ecbc4afdbd860b929406af49a24e072099c4a0eb1d3101ab12702	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 251 (20252026) — Claims against the state: appropriation.

Under existing law, if sufficient appropriations are not available for the payment of certain claims, settlements, or judgments, the Attorney General is required 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 the funds necessary for payment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/03/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/30/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB251 (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/18/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 251 Caballero Third Reading Urgency By Wicks — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — 28–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-03 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-04 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 6.
• 2025-02-14 Referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-03-28 Set for hearing April 7.
• 2025-04-01 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
• 2025-04-03 April 7 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-04-04 Set for hearing April 21.
• 2025-04-10 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
• 2025-04-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 808.) (April 21). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-24 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 0. Page 886.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-04-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-05-12 Referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-05-21 May 21 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-07-17 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2593.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-17 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2025-07-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2025-07-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-07-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 90, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/de44dbef-d587-4830-8c25-f3ffcfcf5758. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).