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type: "Bill"
title: "Mental health: involuntary commitment."
description: "Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental health disorders for the protection of the persons so committed. Under the act, if a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to others, or to themselves, or is gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody for a period of up to 72 hours for assessment, evaluation, and crisis intervention, or placement for evaluation and treatment. Existing law requires persons providing the evaluation services to be properly qualified professionals, and authorizes those professionals to provide telehealth evaluation services. Existing law requires, prior to admitting a person for evaluation and treatment for a period of 72 hours, the professional person in charge of the facility or a designee to assess the individual in person to determine the appropriateness of the involuntary detention."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 3242"
citation: "California AB 3242 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Mental health: involuntary commitment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irwin"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-02-21"
last_action: "2020-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7601179d-204a-430b-90c0-a35909dd3c2d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3242"
source_hash: "b099947c15b1ab734423d37d8f35a937bf5f31a422a074db5870e9608db4d670"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 3242 (20192020) — Mental health: involuntary commitment.
Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental health disorders for the protection of the persons so committed. Under the act, if a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to others, or to themselves, or is gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody for a period of up to 72 hours for assessment, evaluation, and crisis intervention, or placement for evaluation and treatment. Existing law requires persons providing the evaluation services to be properly qualified professionals, and authorizes those professionals to provide telehealth evaluation services. Existing law requires, prior to admitting a person for evaluation and treatment for a period of 72 hours, the professional person in charge of the facility or a designee to assess the individual in person to determine the appropriateness of the involuntary detention.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/21/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3242&version=20190AB324299INT)
2. **05/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3242&version=20190AB324298AMD)
3. **05/11/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3242&version=20190AB324297AMD)
4. **05/20/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3242&version=20190AB324296AMD)
5. **08/05/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3242&version=20190AB324295AMD)
6. **08/24/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3242&version=20190AB324294AMD)
7. **09/25/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3242&version=20190AB324292CHP)
8. **AB3242** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3242)
9. **09/04/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3242&version=20190AB324293ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading AB3242 Irwin By Rubio — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 3242 Irwin Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 3242 Irwin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Rules] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Irwin — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2020-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2020-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2020-04-24** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-04** 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`
- **2020-05-11** 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`
- **2020-05-12** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-20** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-05-21** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `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** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4730.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-23** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-04** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-05** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-06** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2020-08-06** Ordered to second reading.
- **2020-08-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2020-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5429.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2020-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 149, Statutes of 2020.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7601179d-204a-430b-90c0-a35909dd3c2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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