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Bill	Mental health services.	(1) Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (the 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 by a peace officer, a member of the attending staff of an evaluation facility, designated members of a mobile crisis team, or another designated professional person, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Social Services as a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation. The act also authorizes a conservator of the person, of the estate, or of both, to be appointed for a person who is gravely disabled as a result of a mental health disorder.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2242	California AB 2242 (20212022)	bill	Mental health services.	enacted	Santiago	12	38	10	2022-02-16	2022-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/89bbe66d-eac1-4c38-9a6e-c1caeed19f2d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2242	33c5ebfe98ddefb17bbd534780f9b0b7641f238bf1d6c45e6b93afd50f8b5e30	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2242 (20212022) — Mental health services.

(1) Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (the 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 by a peace officer, a member of the attending staff of an evaluation facility, designated members of a mobile crisis team, or another designated professional person, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Social Services as a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation. The act also authorizes a conservator of the person, of the estate, or of both, to be appointed for a person who is gravely disabled as a result of a mental health disorder.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/18/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/21/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/19/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/13/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/27/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/11/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/25/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/30/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. AB2242 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 12–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 12–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2242 Santiago Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2242 Santiago Assembly Third Reading — 63–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2242 Santiago et al. By Glazer — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Santiago — primary (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — author (person)
• Glazer — principal coauthor (person)
• Stern — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2022-03-24 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-03-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-04-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-04-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-04-21 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4359.)
• 2022-04-21 (pending re-refer to Com. on JUD.)
• 2022-04-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-28 Coauthors revised.
• 2022-04-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4736.)
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (May 19). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-05-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 1.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-08-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 867, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/89bbe66d-eac1-4c38-9a6e-c1caeed19f2d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).