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Bill	Sexually violent predators.	Existing law provides for the civil commitment of criminal offenders who have been determined to be sexually violent predators for treatment in a secure state hospital facility. Under existing law, persons to be evaluated for civil commitment are evaluated by 2 practicing psychiatrists or psychologists designated by the Director of State Hospitals. If both evaluators concur that the person is likely to engage in acts of sexual violence without appropriate treatment and custody, the director is required to forward a request for a petition for commitment to the district attorney or county counsel, who may then file the petition with the court.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 507	California SB 507 (20152016)	bill	Sexually violent predators.	enacted	Pavley	7	29	8	2015-02-26	2015-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/912a2f5d-78b6-41b0-88c7-a96cfc710a19	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB507	fba8a68e31bc3839b889060c7a68035940283aa176077bd3652db8e96e7cba1b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 507 (20152016) — Sexually violent predators.

Existing law provides for the civil commitment of criminal offenders who have been determined to be sexually violent predators for treatment in a secure state hospital facility. Under existing law, persons to be evaluated for civil commitment are evaluated by 2 practicing psychiatrists or psychologists designated by the Director of State Hospitals. If both evaluators concur that the person is likely to engage in acts of sexual violence without appropriate treatment and custody, the director is required to forward a request for a petition for commitment to the district attorney or county counsel, who may then file the petition with the court.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/30/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/02/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/02/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/07/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB507 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/15/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 507 Pavley Senate Third Reading By COOLEY — 79–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB507 Pavley Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pavley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-26 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-27 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 29.
• 2015-03-12 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-03-20 Set for hearing April 14.
• 2015-04-08 April 14 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-04-09 Set for hearing April 21.
• 2015-04-21 April 21 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-04-23 Set for hearing April 28.
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 823.) (April 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-08 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2015-05-18 May 18 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-05-23 Set for hearing May 28.
• 2015-06-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1155.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1325.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-07-02 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-08-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 1. Page 3091.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2753.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
• 2015-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 576, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/912a2f5d-78b6-41b0-88c7-a96cfc710a19. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).