---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental health: involuntary confinement: psychologists."
description: "Mental health: involuntary confinement: psychologists."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 348"
citation: "California AB 348 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Mental health: involuntary confinement: psychologists."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chu"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2003-02-11"
last_action: "2003-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44584971-27a1-45f2-80e2-131c7cf704a8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB348"
source_hash: "3d3ddbb65e32ccb77821e4b0ff24f721680abfbcc6112de76dc986ecf7a3ff87"
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 348 (20032004) — Mental health: involuntary confinement: psychologists.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/11/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB348&version=20030AB34899INT)
2. **05/01/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB348&version=20030AB34898AMD)
3. **07/22/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB348&version=20030AB34896CHP)
4. **AB348** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB348)
5. **07/07/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB348&version=20030AB34897ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- assembly 3rd reading ab348 chu by alpert — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 348 chu assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chu — primary (person)
- Alpert — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2003-07-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 94, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-07-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-10** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2003-07-07** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2003-07-07** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 5. Page 1662.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-27** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-26** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2003-06-19** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-05-29** Referred to H. & H.S. and Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-15** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 10. Page 1688.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-08** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-05-05** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Health. Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-02-18** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2003-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44584971-27a1-45f2-80e2-131c7cf704a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).