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Bill	State hospitals: prohibited items: misdemeanor penalty.	Existing law provides for state mental hospitals for the treatment of mentally disordered persons. Existing law places these hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health, and authorizes the department to adopt uniform rules and regulations regarding the conduct and management of these facilities, including prohibiting patients from possessing certain items.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 796	California SB 796 (20112012)	bill	State hospitals: prohibited items: misdemeanor penalty.	enacted	Blakeslee	9	28	6	2011-02-18	2011-08-31	openstates	ocd-bill/80249da1-e09a-4579-aeaa-a818b8322b40	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB796	13c989774500136ab44537ea4ce075376160dee77cb6e803f830155f1788822e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 796 (20112012) — State hospitals: prohibited items: misdemeanor penalty.

Existing law provides for state mental hospitals for the treatment of mentally disordered persons. Existing law places these hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health, and authorizes the department to adopt uniform rules and regulations regarding the conduct and management of these facilities, including prohibiting patients from possessing certain items.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/25/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/10/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/24/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/15/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB796 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/24/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 796 Blakeslee Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #8 — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Blakeslee — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Valadao — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
• 2011-03-10 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2011-03-29 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2011-04-12 Set for hearing April 26.
• 2011-04-20 Set, first hearing. Further hearing to be set.
• 2011-04-21 Set for hearing May 3.
• 2011-04-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 863.) (May 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-13 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2011-05-23 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1189.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2011-06-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-06 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-07 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-07-14 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2344.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-07-14 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-08-17 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2011-08-22 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 2017.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2011-08-31 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-08-31 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 201, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/80249da1-e09a-4579-aeaa-a818b8322b40. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).