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Bill	Criminal proceedings: mental competence.	Existing law prohibits a person from being tried or adjudged to punishment while that person is mentally incompetent. Existing law establishes a process by which a defendant's mental competency is evaluated, which includes requiring the court to appoint a psychiatrist or licensed psychologist, and any other expert the court may deem appropriate.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1962	California AB 1962 (20152016)	bill	Criminal proceedings: mental competence.	enacted	Dodd	6	23	8	2016-02-12	2016-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/2d9f5aa9-938f-4296-935c-252e6088f8f3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1962	a2000f5ef35798cf6234d8bb865151edb86ae4c95a36cc2c01c70d76bb52ddac	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1962 (20152016) — Criminal proceedings: mental competence.

Existing law prohibits a person from being tried or adjudged to punishment while that person is mentally incompetent. Existing law establishes a process by which a defendant's mental competency is evaluated, which includes requiring the court to appoint a psychiatrist or licensed psychologist, and any other expert the court may deem appropriate.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/30/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/06/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/21/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1962 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1962 DODD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1962 DODD Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1962 Dodd By Pan — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2016-02-25 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-03-29 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-03-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-31 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4463.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-05 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-06-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-22 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-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 In committee: 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
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5136.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6189.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 405, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2d9f5aa9-938f-4296-935c-252e6088f8f3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).