republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2755.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Claims against the state: appropriation."
description: "Existing law, the Government Claims Act, requires the Department of General Services to designate the fund from which a claim is to be paid and requires the state agency concerned to pay the claim from that fund if, among other things, the Director of Finance certifies that a sufficient appropriation for the payment of the claim exists. If sufficient appropriations are not available for the payment of certain claims, settlements, or judgments, existing law requires the Attorney General 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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2755"
citation: "California AB 2755 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Claims against the state", "appropriation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wicks"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-15"
last_action: "2024-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5faee17-fe11-44c1-8115-fdfebb0e3569"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2755"
source_hash: "450756793cbc0a40c6ae305e67aecd297fdf5f9569c7aaecfbe9727726026b7f"
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 2755 (20232024) — Claims against the state: appropriation.

Existing law, the Government Claims Act, requires the Department of General Services to designate the fund from which a claim is to be paid and requires the state agency concerned to pay the claim from that fund if, among other things, the Director of Finance certifies that a sufficient appropriation for the payment of the claim exists. If sufficient appropriations are not available for the payment of certain claims, settlements, or judgments, existing law requires the Attorney General 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. **02/15/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2755&version=20230AB275599INT)
2. **03/21/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2755&version=20230AB275598AMD)
3. **04/25/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2755&version=20230AB275597AMD)
4. **07/15/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2755&version=20230AB275595CHP)
5. **AB2755** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2755)
6. **06/24/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2755&version=20230AB275596ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2755 Wicks Third Reading Urgency — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2755 Wicks By Caballero Urgency Clause — **33–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wicks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2024-03-21** Referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 24). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-04-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-20** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5301.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-06-17** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 4. Page 4529.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-06-17** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-07-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-07-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-07-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 115, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5faee17-fe11-44c1-8115-fdfebb0e3569`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).