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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Lanterman-Petris-Short Act: hearings."
+description: "Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental health disorders for the protection of the persons so committed, and authorizes a conservator of the person, of the estate, or of the person and the estate to be appointed for a person who is gravely disabled as a result of a mental health disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism, and designates procedures for hearing a petition for that purpose. Existing law authorizes a party to a hearing under the act to demand that the hearing be public, and be held in a place suitable for attendance by the public."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "SB 578"
+citation: "California SB 578 (20212022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Lanterman-Petris-Short Act: hearings."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2021-02-18"
+last_action: "2021-09-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba3f1fa8-f1c9-48ba-a6d6-9fcd772f3f2c"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578"
+source_hash: "51aadbe50e4b6c4b60fbcd6bbb358e759d9c38a4d1a5b94f025de6f15a34de82"
+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 578 (20212022) — Lanterman-Petris-Short Act: hearings.
+
+Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental health disorders for the protection of the persons so committed, and authorizes a conservator of the person, of the estate, or of the person and the estate to be appointed for a person who is gravely disabled as a result of a mental health disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism, and designates procedures for hearing a petition for that purpose. Existing law authorizes a party to a hearing under the act to demand that the hearing be public, and be held in a place suitable for attendance by the public.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/18/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578&version=20210SB57899INT)
+2. **03/05/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578&version=20210SB57898AMD)
+3. **08/30/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578&version=20210SB57897AMD)
+4. **09/28/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578&version=20210SB57895CHP)
+5. **SB578** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578)
+6. **09/07/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578&version=20210SB57896ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Unfinished Business SB578 Jones Concurrence — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- Consent Calendar SB578 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 578 Jones Senate Third Reading By Stone — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jones — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-02-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
+- **2021-02-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
+- **2021-02-22** (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
+- **2021-02-22** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
+- **2021-03-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-05** Set for hearing March 16.
+- **2021-03-05** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 518.) (March 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-19** Set for hearing April 5.
+- **2021-04-05** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2021-04-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-04-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 715.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-08** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2021-05-13** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-30** June 30 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
+- **2021-08-26** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-08-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-08-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-09-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2719.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-09-02** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2021-09-03** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2380.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
+- **2021-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 389, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba3f1fa8-f1c9-48ba-a6d6-9fcd772f3f2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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