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type: "Bill"
title: "Mental health services: assisted outpatient treatment."
description: "Existing law, the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project Act of 2002, known as Laura's Law, until January 1, 2017, grants each county the authority to offer certain assisted outpatient treatment services for their residents by adoption of a resolution or through the county budget process and by making a finding that no mental health program, as specified, may be reduced as a result of implementation. Under that law, participating counties are required to provide prescribed assisted outpatient services, including a service planning and delivery process, that are client-directed and employ psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery principles. Existing law authorizes participating counties to pay for the services provided from moneys distributed to the counties from various continuously appropriated funds, including the Local Revenue Fund and the Mental Health Services Fund when included in a county plan, as specified. Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to submit a report and evaluation of all counties implementing any component of these provisions to the Governor and the Legislature by July 1, 2015."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 59"
citation: "California AB 59 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Mental health services: assisted outpatient treatment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waldron"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 37
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2014-12-09"
last_action: "2016-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/609e3c85-698d-4784-99da-b013b5e26b3b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB59"
source_hash: "0de3f47bc5b86239970d21e698fad7e815552b8e10e4a14e87d3a76861773742"
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 AB 59 (20152016) — Mental health services: assisted outpatient treatment.
Existing law, the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project Act of 2002, known as Laura's Law, until January 1, 2017, grants each county the authority to offer certain assisted outpatient treatment services for their residents by adoption of a resolution or through the county budget process and by making a finding that no mental health program, as specified, may be reduced as a result of implementation. Under that law, participating counties are required to provide prescribed assisted outpatient services, including a service planning and delivery process, that are client-directed and employ psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery principles. Existing law authorizes participating counties to pay for the services provided from moneys distributed to the counties from various continuously appropriated funds, including the Local Revenue Fund and the Mental Health Services Fund when included in a county plan, as specified. Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to submit a report and evaluation of all counties implementing any component of these provisions to the Governor and the Legislature by July 1, 2015.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **12/09/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB59&version=20150AB5999INT)
2. **01/04/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB59&version=20150AB5995AMD)
3. **01/06/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB59&version=20150AB5994AMD)
4. **03/09/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB59&version=20150AB5998AMD)
5. **03/28/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB59&version=20150AB5993AMD)
6. **04/06/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB59&version=20150AB5997AMD)
7. **04/20/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB59&version=20150AB5996AMD)
8. **09/09/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB59&version=20150AB5991CHP)
9. **AB59** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB59)
10. **08/19/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB59&version=20150AB5992ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading AB59 Waldron By Hall — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 59 WALDRON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 59 WALDRON Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **3–4** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Waldron — primary (person)
- Anderson — coauthor (person)
- Bates — coauthor (person)
- Cannella — coauthor (person)
- Eggman — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Hall — coauthor (person)
- Harper — coauthor (person)
- Huff — coauthor (person)
- Kim — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Olsen — coauthor (person)
- Steinorth — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2014-12-09** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2014-12-10** From printer. May be heard in committee January 9.
- **2015-01-05** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2015-01-22** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2015-02-13** Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-03-10** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2015-04-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 14). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-04-20** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-28** In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
- **2016-01-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-01-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-01-07** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-01-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (January 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-01-21** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-01-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-01-25** From Consent Calendar.
- **2016-01-25** Ordered to third reading.
- **2016-01-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3505.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-01-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-04** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-15** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-06-27** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2016-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4954.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-18** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5875.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
- **2016-09-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 251, Statutes of 2016.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/609e3c85-698d-4784-99da-b013b5e26b3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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