Community mental health services: mental health boards.
Existing law, the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, governs the organization and financing of community mental health services for persons with mental disorders in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs. Existing law generally requires each community mental health service to have a mental health board consisting of 10 to 15 members who are appointed by the governing body, and encourages counties to appoint individuals who have experience with and knowledge of the mental health system. Existing law specifies the duties of mental health boards, including, among other things, reviewing specified county agreements. Existing law requires a local mental health board to develop bylaws to be approved by the governing body to establish the specific number of members on the mental health board and to ensure that the composition of the mental health board represents the demographics of the county as a whole.
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California Legislature
20192020
AB 1352
California AB 1352 (20192020)
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Community mental health services: mental health boards.
California AB 1352 (20192020) — Community mental health services: mental health boards.
Existing law, the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, governs the organization and financing of community mental health services for persons with mental disorders in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs. Existing law generally requires each community mental health service to have a mental health board consisting of 10 to 15 members who are appointed by the governing body, and encourages counties to appoint individuals who have experience with and knowledge of the mental health system. Existing law specifies the duties of mental health boards, including, among other things, reviewing specified county agreements. Existing law requires a local mental health board to develop bylaws to be approved by the governing body to establish the specific number of members on the mental health board and to ensure that the composition of the mental health board represents the demographics of the county as a whole.
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
2019-03-25 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2019-03-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
2019-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2019-04-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
2019-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2019-05-08 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2019-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2019-05-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1772.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-05-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2019-05-29 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2019-06-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
2019-06-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2019-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2019-08-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
2019-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2019-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2503.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2019-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3112.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2019-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
2019-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2019-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 460, Statutes of 2019.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f4eaa7cb-f469-4f8e-acef-edbb70862c5b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).