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Bill	Mental health: community-based services.	Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act, an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the continuously appropriated Mental Health Services Fund to fund various county mental health programs. The act provides that it may be amended by the Legislature by a 23 vote of each house as long as the amendment is consistent with and furthers the intent of the act, and that the Legislature may clarify procedures and terms of the act by majority vote.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 847	California AB 847 (20152016)	bill appropriation	Mental health: community-based services.	enacted	Mullin	8	26	7	2015-02-26	2016-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/2c3df87a-5fcc-442f-b377-0a975335cdd9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB847	1763869b7706a8709e1908dcb1831f1af2bb7243aa2ae73b6d8eeab7f74baba3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 847 (20152016) — Mental health: community-based services.

Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act, an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the continuously appropriated Mental Health Services Fund to fund various county mental health programs. The act provides that it may be amended by the Legislature by a 23 vote of each house as long as the amendment is consistent with and furthers the intent of the act, and that the Legislature may clarify procedures and terms of the act by majority vote.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/10/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 02/22/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/11/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. 04/30/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. AB847 (committee substitute) — source
8. 03/17/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 847 MULLIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 847 MULLIN Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB847 Mullin By Beall Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mullin — primary (person)
• Ridley-Thomas — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 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
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-30 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-04 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-05-05 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-05-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1562.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-30 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-02-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-02-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-03-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-03-10 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3204.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after March 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-03-17 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 3974.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-03-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-04-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-04-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 6, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2c3df87a-5fcc-442f-b377-0a975335cdd9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).