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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Guardian or conservator: powers and duties."
+description: "Existing law provides that, upon a court's findings that a conservatee has dementia, as defined, and a functional impairment, a conservator may place the conservatee in a prescribed secured residential or nursing facility and authorize the administration of prescribed medications appropriate for the care and treatment of dementia. A petition for authority to act under these provisions requires, among other things, that the conservatee be represented by an attorney, as provided."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 436"
+citation: "California AB 436 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Guardian or conservator: powers and duties."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2015-02-19"
+last_action: "2015-08-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/efaedfd2-91ef-47d4-8917-77bf5843bba0"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB436"
+source_hash: "7090b11a4fdd651e644e982e60a36450b6f8df8caf2dbb4ba71abe675582ba81"
+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 436 (20152016) — Guardian or conservator: powers and duties.
+
+Existing law provides that, upon a court's findings that a conservatee has dementia, as defined, and a functional impairment, a conservator may place the conservatee in a prescribed secured residential or nursing facility and authorize the administration of prescribed medications appropriate for the care and treatment of dementia. A petition for authority to act under these provisions requires, among other things, that the conservatee be represented by an attorney, as provided.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/19/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB436&version=20150AB43699INT)
+2. **03/09/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB436&version=20150AB43698AMD)
+3. **08/13/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB436&version=20150AB43696CHP)
+4. **AB436** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB436)
+5. **07/08/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB436&version=20150AB43697ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB436 Jones By Vidak — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 436 JONES Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jones — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
+- **2015-03-02** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-03-10** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-03-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-06** From Consent Calendar.
+- **2015-04-06** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2015-04-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 851.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-06-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-06-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1785.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-06** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2015-08-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2015-08-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2015-08-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 197, Statutes of 2015.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/efaedfd2-91ef-47d4-8917-77bf5843bba0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+