--- type: "Bill" title: "Lanterman-Petris-Short Act: hearings." description: "Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental health disorders for the protection of the persons so committed, and authorizes a conservator of the person, of the estate, or of the person and the estate to be appointed for a person who is gravely disabled as a result of a mental health disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism, and designates procedures for hearing a petition for that purpose. Existing law authorizes a party to a hearing under the act to demand that the hearing be public, and be held in a place suitable for attendance by the public." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20212022" identifier: "SB 578" citation: "California SB 578 (20212022)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Lanterman-Petris-Short Act: hearings."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Jones"] version_count: 6 action_count: 26 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2021-02-18" last_action: "2021-09-28" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba3f1fa8-f1c9-48ba-a6d6-9fcd772f3f2c" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578" source_hash: "51aadbe50e4b6c4b60fbcd6bbb358e759d9c38a4d1a5b94f025de6f15a34de82" 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 578 (20212022) — Lanterman-Petris-Short Act: hearings. Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental health disorders for the protection of the persons so committed, and authorizes a conservator of the person, of the estate, or of the person and the estate to be appointed for a person who is gravely disabled as a result of a mental health disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism, and designates procedures for hearing a petition for that purpose. Existing law authorizes a party to a hearing under the act to demand that the hearing be public, and be held in a place suitable for attendance by the public. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/18/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578&version=20210SB57899INT) 2. **03/05/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578&version=20210SB57898AMD) 3. **08/30/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578&version=20210SB57897AMD) 4. **09/28/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578&version=20210SB57895CHP) 5. **SB578** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578) 6. **09/07/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578&version=20210SB57896ENR) ## Votes - Unfinished Business SB578 Jones Concurrence — **37–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass as amended. — **16–0** (pass) · lower - Consent Calendar SB578 — **38–0** (pass) · upper - SB 578 Jones Senate Third Reading By Stone — **77–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Jones — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2021-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1` - **2021-02-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21. - **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.) - **2021-03-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee` - **2021-03-05** Set for hearing March 16. - **2021-03-05** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2021-03-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 518.) (March 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2021-03-19** Set for hearing April 5. - **2021-04-05** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2` - **2021-04-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2021-04-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 715.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2021-04-08** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1` - **2021-05-13** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee` - **2021-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2021-06-30** June 30 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file. - **2021-08-26** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2021-08-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2021-08-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2021-09-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2719.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2021-09-02** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. - **2021-09-03** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2380.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2021-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m. - **2021-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2021-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 389, 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/ba3f1fa8-f1c9-48ba-a6d6-9fcd772f3f2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).