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Bill	Inmates: psychiatric medication: informed consent.	Existing law prohibits, except as specified, a person sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail from being administered any psychiatric medication without his or her prior informed consent. Existing law authorizes a county department of mental health, or other designated county department, to administer to an inmate involuntary medication on a nonemergency basis only after the inmate is provided, among other things, a hearing before a superior court judge, a court-appointed commissioner or referee, or a court-appointed hearing officer.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 720	California AB 720 (20172018)	bill	Inmates: psychiatric medication: informed consent.	enacted	Eggman	10	32	6	2017-02-15	2017-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/c9e11615-c6a8-4072-bd8f-1a4a71298ef1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB720	0af9e3d578e12139c4caaa125e998baac8f5ac20506d95622d5bd3325a824a13	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 720 (20172018) — Inmates: psychiatric medication: informed consent.

Existing law prohibits, except as specified, a person sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail from being administered any psychiatric medication without his or her prior informed consent. Existing law authorizes a county department of mental health, or other designated county department, to administer to an inmate involuntary medication on a nonemergency basis only after the inmate is provided, among other things, a hearing before a superior court judge, a court-appointed commissioner or referee, or a court-appointed hearing officer.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/15/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/06/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/13/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/07/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/28/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB720 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent Calendar # AB720 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 720 EGGMAN Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 720 Eggman Special Consent Calendar 1st Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Eggman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-04-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-17 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-05-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-05-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1657.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-01 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-06-06 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. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-12 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2017-09-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2909.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2017-09-14 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2017-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3424.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2017-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 347, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9e11615-c6a8-4072-bd8f-1a4a71298ef1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).