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type: "Bill"
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title: "Incarcerated persons: mental health evaluations."
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description: "Existing law requires that, as a condition of parole, a prisoner who has a severe mental health disorder, as defined, be treated by the State Department of State Hospitals. Existing law requires, prior to release on parole, the person in charge of treating the prisoner and a practicing psychiatrist or psychologist from the State Department of State Hospitals to have evaluated the prisoner at a facility of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20192020"
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identifier: "SB 591"
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citation: "California SB 591 (20192020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Incarcerated persons: mental health evaluations."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Galgiani"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 31
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vote_count: 9
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first_action: "2019-02-22"
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last_action: "2019-10-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/661cf171-4ecf-4b5d-9201-02d803d8a7d1"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB591"
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source_hash: "cf4bc1884e9d50027183e3b0134817a1f893666f0cb772a6bbcbe91936110f3c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California SB 591 (20192020) — Incarcerated persons: mental health evaluations.
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Existing law requires that, as a condition of parole, a prisoner who has a severe mental health disorder, as defined, be treated by the State Department of State Hospitals. Existing law requires, prior to release on parole, the person in charge of treating the prisoner and a practicing psychiatrist or psychologist from the State Department of State Hospitals to have evaluated the prisoner at a facility of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB591&version=20190SB59199INT)
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2. **03/27/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB591&version=20190SB59198AMD)
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3. **05/17/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB591&version=20190SB59197AMD)
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4. **09/05/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB591&version=20190SB59196AMD)
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5. **10/08/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB591&version=20190SB59194CHP)
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6. **SB591** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB591)
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7. **09/13/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB591&version=20190SB59195ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- SB 591 Galgiani Senate Third Reading By Lackey — **78–0** (pass) · lower
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- Placed on suspense file — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
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- Unfinished Business SB591 Galgiani Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Galgiani — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
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- **2019-02-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
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- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
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- **2019-03-07** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-03-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-03** Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-04** Set for hearing April 9.
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- **2019-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 653.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-11** Set for hearing April 23.
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- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 803.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-26** Set for hearing May 6.
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- **2019-05-06** May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
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- **2019-05-10** Set for hearing May 16.
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- **2019-05-17** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1104.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2019-05-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-05-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1259.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2019-05-24** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2019-06-06** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2019-08-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2019-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-09-05** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2019-09-05** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2019-09-10** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3345.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2019-09-10** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2019-09-11** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2019-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2869.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2019-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2019-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 649, Statutes of 2019.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/661cf171-4ecf-4b5d-9201-02d803d8a7d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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