AB 2247: Trauma Healing and Resilience Investment for Victimized and Exposed Youth Act.

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

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, a continuously appropriated fund, for specified losses suffered as a result of those crimes. Existing law sets forth eligibility requirements and limits on the amount of compensation that the board may award, and requires the application for compensation to be verified under penalty of perjury.

This bill would create a pilot program, the Trauma Healing and Resilience Investment for Victimized and Exposed Youth Act (T.H.R.I.V.E.), to be administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the administration of grants to the County of Los Angeles to establish and administer a program to pay for mental health and counseling services for youth survivors of gun violence, as defined, who request those services and who reside in that county. The bill would require policies and procedures for distributing funds to meet certain requirements, including, among other things, allowing youth survivors of gun violence, or their parents or guardians for survivors who are minors, to attest to their experiences of gun violence without requiring external documentation of the gun violence incident.

The bill would create the Trauma Healing and Resilience Investment for Victimized and Exposed Youth Fund to be used by the department for the purposes of this program, upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would make client information and records of mental health services provided to these provisions confidential.

The bill would make implementation of these provisions contingent upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2032.

Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.

This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 4

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. September 27, 2026Vetoed by Governor.
2. September 3, 2026Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
3. August 26, 2026Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 16. Page 6642.).
4. August 26, 2026In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
5. August 26, 2026Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 6.).
6. August 17, 2026Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
7. August 13, 2026Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
8. August 13, 2026From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 13).
9. August 3, 2026In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
10. July 1, 2026From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
11. June 18, 2026From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
12. June 3, 2026Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.