---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wards and conservatees: mental health."
description: "Existing law generally prescribes the extent of the powers and duties of guardians and conservators and limits those powers by prohibiting the involuntary commitment of a ward or conservatee to a mental health treatment facility, except as specified. Existing law requires the Director of State Hospitals to adopt and issue regulations defining \"mental health treatment facility\" for those purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 468"
citation: "California AB 468 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Wards and conservatees: mental health."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2015-02-23"
last_action: "2015-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32b81e86-1183-4fc6-a263-c51b52f52334"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB468"
source_hash: "4cc42f00f0a8527605a4e929ca726bb3856c93f15dea3076b00d0bd6ad70270d"
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 468 (20152016) — Wards and conservatees: mental health.

Existing law generally prescribes the extent of the powers and duties of guardians and conservators and limits those powers by prohibiting the involuntary commitment of a ward or conservatee to a mental health treatment facility, except as specified. Existing law requires the Director of State Hospitals to adopt and issue regulations defining "mental health treatment facility" for those purposes.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB468&version=20150AB46899INT)
2. **07/16/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB468&version=20150AB46897CHP)
3. **AB468** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB468)
4. **07/07/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB468&version=20150AB46898ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 468 JONES Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2015-03-05** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-07** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-08** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 885.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-25** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1754.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-02** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-07-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2015-07-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 117, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32b81e86-1183-4fc6-a263-c51b52f52334`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).