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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Mentally ill offender crime reduction grants."
+description: "Existing law requires the Board of State and Community Corrections to administer mentally ill offender crime reduction grants on a competitive basis to counties that expand or establish a continuum of timely and effective responses to reduce crime and criminal justice costs related to mentally ill juvenile and adult offenders. Existing law requires an application for a mentally ill offender crime reduction grant to describe a 4-year plan for the programs, services, or strategies to be provided under the grant, and authorizes the funds from a mentally ill offender crime reduction grant to be used to fund specialized alternative custody programs that offer appropriate mental health and treatment services."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "SB 621"
+citation: "California SB 621 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Mentally ill offender crime reduction grants."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hertzberg"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2015-02-27"
+last_action: "2015-10-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f4c4d56-2003-4007-b4b4-465fb44f816a"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB621"
+source_hash: "7a59611c30391fad0fa0704861f1ef4549889fa9d7d7a618b4bfbd0ab342e441"
+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 SB 621 (20152016) — Mentally ill offender crime reduction grants.
+
+Existing law requires the Board of State and Community Corrections to administer mentally ill offender crime reduction grants on a competitive basis to counties that expand or establish a continuum of timely and effective responses to reduce crime and criminal justice costs related to mentally ill juvenile and adult offenders. Existing law requires an application for a mentally ill offender crime reduction grant to describe a 4-year plan for the programs, services, or strategies to be provided under the grant, and authorizes the funds from a mentally ill offender crime reduction grant to be used to fund specialized alternative custody programs that offer appropriate mental health and treatment services.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB621&version=20150SB62199INT)
+2. **10/03/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB621&version=20150SB62197CHP)
+3. **SB621** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB621)
+4. **09/03/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB621&version=20150SB62198ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 621 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By BURKE — **80–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hertzberg — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-27** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
+- **2015-03-02** From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
+- **2015-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
+- **2015-03-12** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-20** Set for hearing April 7.
+- **2015-04-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 508.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-04-10** Set for hearing April 20.
+- **2015-04-20** April 20 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
+- **2015-05-23** Set for hearing May 28.
+- **2015-05-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1157.) (May 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-05-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-06-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1208.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2015-06-18** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-07-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-07-08** July 8 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2015-08-19** August 19 set for second hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
+- **2015-08-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-08-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-09-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2782.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-09-02** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
+- **2015-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
+- **2015-10-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2015-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 473, Statutes of 2015.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f4c4d56-2003-4007-b4b4-465fb44f816a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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