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Bill	Competence to stand trial.	(1) 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 and by which the defendant receives treatment, including, if applicable, antipsychotic medication, with the goal of returning the defendant to competency. Existing law suspends a criminal action pending restoration to competency.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 317	California SB 317 (20212022)	bill	Competence to stand trial.	enacted	Stern	9	30	6	2021-02-04	2021-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/fa5486ad-61dd-4920-97d7-e9ae23796bd0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB317	1af9d9a7fa1af0b85d56119d7d0dc30ebfa60ce4a6c6c872241250a9bf483010	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 317 (20212022) — Competence to stand trial.

(1) 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 and by which the defendant receives treatment, including, if applicable, antipsychotic medication, with the goal of returning the defendant to competency. Existing law suspends a criminal action pending restoration to competency.

Version chain

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

1. 02/04/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/29/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/23/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/12/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/06/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB317 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/10/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB317 Stern By Wiener Concurrence — 32–5 (pass) · upper
• SB 317 Stern Senate Third Reading By Santiago — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 32–5 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Stern — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-04 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-05 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 7.
• 2021-02-17 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-03-26 Set for hearing April 27.
• 2021-04-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 940.) (April 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 Set for hearing May 10.
• 2021-05-10 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 5. Page 1275.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-06-15 June 15 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2021-06-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-12 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-01 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 2821.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-07 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-08 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 5. Page 2521.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 599, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fa5486ad-61dd-4920-97d7-e9ae23796bd0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).