---
type: "Bill"
title: "Substance abuse and mental health services: advertising and marketing."
description: "Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of an adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility, a psychiatric health facility, or a mental health rehabilitation facility by the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law authorizes the department to impose specified penalties on a facility that is in violation of applicable laws and regulations governing the facility."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 434"
citation: "California SB 434 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Substance abuse and mental health services: advertising and marketing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bates"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-02-16"
last_action: "2021-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5b0382c-6aff-4c94-b19b-023941f4843d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB434"
source_hash: "3a6d47f984956a246fa3658245545374ecaa472e52cbddd9d3983aa6ea7e02ab"
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 434 (20212022) — Substance abuse and mental health services: advertising and marketing.

Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of an adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility, a psychiatric health facility, or a mental health rehabilitation facility by the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law authorizes the department to impose specified penalties on a facility that is in violation of applicable laws and regulations governing the facility.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB434&version=20210SB43499INT)
2. **10/01/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB434&version=20210SB43497CHP)
3. **SB434** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB434)
4. **08/27/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB434&version=20210SB43498ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB434 Bates et al. — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 434 Bates Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bates — primary (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Jones — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-17** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
- **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.)
- **2021-02-25** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** Set for hearing March 10.
- **2021-03-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 457.) (March 10). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16** Set for hearing March 23.
- **2021-03-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 589.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Set for hearing May 3.
- **2021-05-04** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-17** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1108.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-17** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-28** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-08-19** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-23** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2523.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-08-26** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2021-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2021-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 447, 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/a5b0382c-6aff-4c94-b19b-023941f4843d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).