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Bill	Health.	Existing law, the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, contains provisions governing the operation and financing of community mental health services for the mentally disordered in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs. Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act, an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63, establishes the Mental Health Services Fund to fund various county mental health programs. The act may be amended only by a 2 /3 vote of both houses of the Legislature and only so long as the amendment is consistent with and furthers the intent of the act. Provisions that clarify procedures and terms of the act may be added by majority vote.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010 Special Session 3	AB 5	California AB 5 (20092010 Special Session 3)	bill	Health.	enacted	Evans	6	26	4	2009-01-05	2009-03-03	openstates	ocd-bill/996f0a01-bbc4-4157-89d6-ec4a26c5b7e0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920103AB5	679f3a9d86e6ae41d484a47563c2487242b6631023ca80bfd3c672fbe73012a8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 5 (20092010 Special Session 3) — Health.

Existing law, the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, contains provisions governing the operation and financing of community mental health services for the mentally disordered in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs. Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act, an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63, establishes the Mental Health Services Fund to fund various county mental health programs. The act may be amended only by a 2 /3 vote of both houses of the Legislature and only so long as the amendment is consistent with and furthers the intent of the act. Provisions that clarify procedures and terms of the act may be added by majority vote.

Version chain

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

1. 01/05/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/07/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 02/14/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/03/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB5 (committee substitute) — source
6. 02/15/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB5 EVANS Assembly Third Reading Third Extraordinary Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB5 EVANS Concurrence- Urgency Added Third Extraordinary Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB5 Evans — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Evans — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-01-05 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-01-06 From printer.
• 2009-01-07 Referred to Com. on RULES. referral-committee
• 2009-01-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on RULES. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-01-08 Re-referred to Com. on RULES. referral-committee
• 2009-01-12 Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on third reading file.
• 2009-01-12 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 0. Page 31.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-01-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-01-26 Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
• 2009-01-26 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-02-14 Senate Rule 29.3 suspended.
• 2009-02-14 (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 24.)
• 2009-02-14 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
• 2009-02-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 57.) (February 14). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-02-14 Ordered returned to third reading.
• 2009-02-14 Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 27.). reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-02-14 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 6. Page 30.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-02-15 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2009-02-15 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 67. Noes 12. Page 99.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-02-15 Motion to reconsider on the next Legislative day made by Assembly Member Torrico.
• 2009-02-16 (Corrected February 16.)
• 2009-02-19 Reconsideration lapsed.
• 2009-02-19 To enrollment.
• 2009-02-19 Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2009-02-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-03-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 20, Statutes of 2009-10 Third Extraordinary Session.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/996f0a01-bbc4-4157-89d6-ec4a26c5b7e0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).