---
type: "Bill"
title: "Guardian or conservator: powers and duties."
description: "Existing law provides that, upon a court's findings that a conservatee has dementia, as defined, and a functional impairment, a conservator may place the conservatee in a prescribed secured residential or nursing facility and authorize the administration of prescribed medications appropriate for the care and treatment of dementia. A petition for authority to act under these provisions requires, among other things, that the conservatee be represented by an attorney, as provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 436"
citation: "California AB 436 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Guardian or conservator: powers and duties."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2015-02-19"
last_action: "2015-08-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/efaedfd2-91ef-47d4-8917-77bf5843bba0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB436"
source_hash: "7090b11a4fdd651e644e982e60a36450b6f8df8caf2dbb4ba71abe675582ba81"
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 436 (20152016) — Guardian or conservator: powers and duties.

Existing law provides that, upon a court's findings that a conservatee has dementia, as defined, and a functional impairment, a conservator may place the conservatee in a prescribed secured residential or nursing facility and authorize the administration of prescribed medications appropriate for the care and treatment of dementia. A petition for authority to act under these provisions requires, among other things, that the conservatee be represented by an attorney, as provided.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB436&version=20150AB43699INT)
2. **03/09/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB436&version=20150AB43698AMD)
3. **08/13/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB436&version=20150AB43696CHP)
4. **AB436** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB436)
5. **07/08/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB436&version=20150AB43697ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB436 Jones By Vidak — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 436 JONES Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2015-03-02** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-03-10** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-03-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-06** From Consent Calendar.
- **2015-04-06** Ordered to third reading.
- **2015-04-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 851.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1785.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-06** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-08-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2015-08-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-08-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 197, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/efaedfd2-91ef-47d4-8917-77bf5843bba0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).