---
type: "Bill"
title: "State hospitals: involuntary treatment."
description: "Existing law requires, prior to the termination of parole or release from prison, as specified, of a parolee or prisoner with a severe mental disorder that is not in remission or cannot be kept in remission without treatment, that a written evaluation on remission be submitted to the district attorney of the county in which the parolee is receiving outpatient treatment, or for those in prison or in a state mental hospital, the district attorney of the county of commitment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 610"
citation: "California AB 610 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State hospitals: involuntary treatment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Achadjian"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 35
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2013-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e1de9cc-7cca-48b0-8901-0fccc282d968"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB610"
source_hash: "0877ecb2c7e53fb86ca51829fb51781bb81dcc8d06b404ec7400079a490dd5fa"
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 610 (20132014) — State hospitals: involuntary treatment.

Existing law requires, prior to the termination of parole or release from prison, as specified, of a parolee or prisoner with a severe mental disorder that is not in remission or cannot be kept in remission without treatment, that a written evaluation on remission be submitted to the district attorney of the county in which the parolee is receiving outpatient treatment, or for those in prison or in a state mental hospital, the district attorney of the county of commitment.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB610&version=20130AB61099INT)
2. **03/19/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB610&version=20130AB61098AMD)
3. **04/04/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB610&version=20130AB61097AMD)
4. **04/09/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB610&version=20130AB61096AMD)
5. **04/16/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB610&version=20130AB61095AMD)
6. **06/25/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB610&version=20130AB61094AMD)
7. **09/03/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB610&version=20130AB61093AMD)
8. **10/10/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB610&version=20130AB61091CHP)
9. **AB610** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB610)
10. **09/16/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB610&version=20130AB61092ENR)

## Votes

- AB 610 ACHADJIAN Consent Calendar Second Day — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 610 ACHADJIAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB610 Achadjian By Monning — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations to Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Achadjian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2013-03-19** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-08** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-04-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-17** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1477.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-29** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-03** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-06-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-25** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-08-08** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-08-19** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2013-08-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2239.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-09-10** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
- **2013-09-10** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
- **2013-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3106.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-17** Enrolled measure version corrected.
- **2013-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2013-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 705, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e1de9cc-7cca-48b0-8901-0fccc282d968`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).