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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Wards and conservatees: mental health."
+description: "Existing law generally prescribes the extent of the powers and duties of guardians and conservators and limits those powers by prohibiting the involuntary commitment of a ward or conservatee to a mental health treatment facility, except as specified. Existing law requires the Director of State Hospitals to adopt and issue regulations defining \"mental health treatment facility\" for those purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 468"
+citation: "California AB 468 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Wards and conservatees: mental health."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2015-02-23"
+last_action: "2015-07-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32b81e86-1183-4fc6-a263-c51b52f52334"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB468"
+source_hash: "4cc42f00f0a8527605a4e929ca726bb3856c93f15dea3076b00d0bd6ad70270d"
+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 468 (20152016) — Wards and conservatees: mental health.
+
+Existing law generally prescribes the extent of the powers and duties of guardians and conservators and limits those powers by prohibiting the involuntary commitment of a ward or conservatee to a mental health treatment facility, except as specified. Existing law requires the Director of State Hospitals to adopt and issue regulations defining "mental health treatment facility" for those purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/23/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB468&version=20150AB46899INT)
+2. **07/16/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB468&version=20150AB46897CHP)
+3. **AB468** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB468)
+4. **07/07/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB468&version=20150AB46898ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 468 JONES Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jones — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
+- **2015-03-05** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-07** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-04-08** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 885.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-06-25** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1754.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-02** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2015-07-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
+- **2015-07-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2015-07-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 117, Statutes of 2015.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32b81e86-1183-4fc6-a263-c51b52f52334`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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