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Bill	Criminal proceedings: mental competence: expert reports.	Existing law prohibits a person from being tried or adjudged to punishment while that person is mentally incompetent. Existing law establishes a process by which a defendant's mental competency is evaluated, which includes requiring the court to appoint a psychiatrist or licensed psychologist, and any other expert whom the court may deem appropriate, to examine the defendant.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 557	California SB 557 (20192020)	bill	Criminal proceedings: mental competence: expert reports.	enacted	Jones	7	28	6	2019-02-22	2019-09-05	openstates	ocd-bill/1f4a5676-8d44-477f-b035-474348ad713f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB557	43977d8e4d038b998c94972d11835162195432561625016d35ae41a7e8ca1546	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 557 (20192020) — Criminal proceedings: mental competence: expert reports.

Existing law prohibits a person from being tried or adjudged to punishment while that person is mentally incompetent. Existing law establishes a process by which a defendant's mental competency is evaluated, which includes requiring the court to appoint a psychiatrist or licensed psychologist, and any other expert whom the court may deem appropriate, to examine the defendant.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/06/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/05/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB557 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/23/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent SB557 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 557 Jones Senate Third Reading By Gabriel — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar SB557 — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-07 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-03-19 Set for hearing April 2.
• 2019-03-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 526.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-05 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2019-04-22 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 824.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-04-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-05-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-06-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-26 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-07-01 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.
• 2019-07-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-07-11 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-07-11 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-08-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2669.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-12 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-08-19 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-08-22 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2242.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2019-09-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-09-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 251, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1f4a5676-8d44-477f-b035-474348ad713f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).