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Bill	Incarcerated person's competence.	Existing law authorizes the warden of a state prison to whom an incarcerated person is delivered for execution to suspend the execution of a judgment of death in specified circumstances. Under existing law, if the court sets a date for execution, the warden is required to report that to the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, who is required to appoint 3 "alienists" (psychiatrists) from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation staff, at least 20 days prior to the date appointed for execution, to examine the defendant and investigate the defendant's sanity.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2657	California AB 2657 (20212022)	bill	Incarcerated person's competence.	enacted	Stone	7	25	6	2022-02-18	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/5393b31e-9471-4751-ade5-da2f7145e9a6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2657	a3f59e5f3b9912952f43deaa49845c09204c5c01bc3e1cb7179464da00a53d65	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2657 (20212022) — Incarcerated person's competence.

Existing law authorizes the warden of a state prison to whom an incarcerated person is delivered for execution to suspend the execution of a judgment of death in specified circumstances. Under existing law, if the court sets a date for execution, the warden is required to report that to the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, who is required to appoint 3 "alienists" (psychiatrists) from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation staff, at least 20 days prior to the date appointed for execution, to examine the defendant and investigate the defendant's sanity.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/31/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/07/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/08/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2657 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2657 Stone Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 56–17 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 2657 Stone Assembly Third Reading — 56–18 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2657 Stone By Skinner — 30–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Stone — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-18 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2022-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2022-03-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-03-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-04-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 5). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-07 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 18. Page 4913.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-06-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-07-27 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-08-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 5012.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-24 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 56. Noes 17.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:30 p.m.
• 2022-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 795, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5393b31e-9471-4751-ade5-da2f7145e9a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).