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Bill	Mental health services: assisted outpatient treatment.	The Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project Act of 2002, known as Laura's Law, until January 1, 2022, authorizes each county to elect to offer specified mental health programs either through a resolution adopted by the county board of supervisors or through the county budget process, if the county board of supervisors makes a finding that specified mental health programs will not be reduced as a result of participating. Existing law authorizes participating counties to pay for the services provided from moneys distributed to the counties from various continuously appropriated funds, including the Mental Health Services Fund, when included in a county plan, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1976	California AB 1976 (20192020)	bill	Mental health services: assisted outpatient treatment.	enacted	Eggman	7	27	8	2020-01-22	2020-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/6219061a-2135-42fb-b151-78a591ac6df5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1976	b3ed0e664f4740671f2dfe452882edc01367226f433e5cffbc7639c7318c7c75	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1976 (20192020) — Mental health services: assisted outpatient treatment.

The Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project Act of 2002, known as Laura's Law, until January 1, 2022, authorizes each county to elect to offer specified mental health programs either through a resolution adopted by the county board of supervisors or through the county budget process, if the county board of supervisors makes a finding that specified mental health programs will not be reduced as a result of participating. Existing law authorizes participating counties to pay for the services provided from moneys distributed to the counties from various continuously appropriated funds, including the Mental Health Services Fund, when included in a county plan, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/22/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/05/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/20/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/25/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1976 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1976 Eggman et al. By Stern — 30–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1976 Eggman Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1976 Eggman Concurrence in Senate Amendments By WOOD — 74–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eggman — primary (person)
• Moorlach — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-22 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-01-23 From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
• 2020-02-06 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-03-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-05-04 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
• 2020-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2020-05-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-03 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 From Consent Calendar.
• 2020-06-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2020-06-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4796.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-07-01 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2020-07-30 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 25. Noes 7. Page 4021.)
• 2020-08-04 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 4356.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5335.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 140, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6219061a-2135-42fb-b151-78a591ac6df5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).