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Bill	Mental health: referral of conservatees.	Existing law provides a procedure for the appointment of a conservator for a person who is determined to be gravely disabled as a result of a mental disorder or an impairment by chronic alcoholism. Existing law authorizes certain persons to recommend conservatorship of an individual under his or her care to the officer providing conservatorship investigation in the county of the individual's residence, as specified. Existing law also provides for the establishment of a conservatorship for a person who is unable to properly provide for his or her personal needs or is substantially unable to manage his or her finances.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1836	California AB 1836 (20152016)	bill	Mental health: referral of conservatees.	enacted	Maienschein	7	26	9	2016-02-09	2016-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/cd178dbb-7680-4dc7-9ee1-b8db7eaaf78a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1836	51528e1c4d6c1aa84b21c0c6f9765805b0db958ae68480cd8e1866fd78050b5f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1836 (20152016) — Mental health: referral of conservatees.

Existing law provides a procedure for the appointment of a conservator for a person who is determined to be gravely disabled as a result of a mental disorder or an impairment by chronic alcoholism. Existing law authorizes certain persons to recommend conservatorship of an individual under his or her care to the officer providing conservatorship investigation in the county of the individual's residence, as specified. Existing law also provides for the establishment of a conservatorship for a person who is unable to properly provide for his or her personal needs or is substantially unable to manage his or her finances.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/31/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/02/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1836 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1836 MAIENSCHEIN Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1836 Maienschein By Hertzberg — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1836 MAIENSCHEIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-10 From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
• 2016-02-25 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-03-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-03-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-03-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-04-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5081.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-06-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5484.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2016-08-30 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6474.)
• 2016-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6483.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 819, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cd178dbb-7680-4dc7-9ee1-b8db7eaaf78a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).