republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-173.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Armenian Genocide victims."
description: "Existing law authorizes any Armenian Genocide victim, as defined, or the heir or beneficiary of that victim, who resides in this state and has a claim arising out of an insurance policy or policies purchased or in effect in Europe or Asia between 1875 and 1923 from a defined insurer, to bring a legal action to recover on that claim in a court in this state. Existing law also provides that any action, including any pending action brought by an Armenian Genocide victim, or the heir or beneficiary of that victim, whether a resident or nonresident of this state, seeking benefits under the insurance policies issued or in effect between 1875 and 1923, shall not be dismissed for failure to comply with the applicable statute of limitation, provided the action is filed on or before December 31, 2010."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 173"
citation: "California AB 173 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Armenian Genocide victims."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gatto"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2011-01-20"
last_action: "2011-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df6b4fb0-fb4a-48e4-9cbb-44b38390ec30"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB173"
source_hash: "6f8ed3ed91f400e6d8489b0db3f373371a5e450726ad8d37a31fd2f537d0d1e4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 173 (20112012) — Armenian Genocide victims.

Existing law authorizes any Armenian Genocide victim, as defined, or the heir or beneficiary of that victim, who resides in this state and has a claim arising out of an insurance policy or policies purchased or in effect in Europe or Asia between 1875 and 1923 from a defined insurer, to bring a legal action to recover on that claim in a court in this state. Existing law also provides that any action, including any pending action brought by an Armenian Genocide victim, or the heir or beneficiary of that victim, whether a resident or nonresident of this state, seeking benefits under the insurance policies issued or in effect between 1875 and 1923, shall not be dismissed for failure to comply with the applicable statute of limitation, provided the action is filed on or before December 31, 2010.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/20/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB173&version=20110AB17399INT)
2. **03/30/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB173&version=20110AB17398AMD)
3. **07/08/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB173&version=20110AB17396CHP)
4. **AB173** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB173)
5. **06/24/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB173&version=20110AB17397ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 173 GATTO Third Reading Urgency — **61–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB173 Gatto By Liu — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gatto — primary (person)
- Achadjian — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-01-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-01-21** From printer. May be heard in committee February 20.
- **2011-02-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-15** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-03-29** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 22). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-03-31** Measure version as amended on March 30 corrected. `amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-14** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 0. Page 973.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-04-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-12** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-23** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1534.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-23** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2011-06-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2011-07-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-07-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 70, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df6b4fb0-fb4a-48e4-9cbb-44b38390ec30`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).