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Bill	Mental health services: assisted outpatient treatment.	The Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project Act of 2002, known as Laura's Law, commencing January 1, 2022, requires each county to offer specified mental health programs, unless a county or group of counties opts out by a resolution passed by the governing body, as specified. Existing law authorizes participating counties to pay for the services provided from moneys distributed to the counties from various continuously appropriated funds, including the Mental Health Services Fund, when included in a county plan, as specified. Existing law authorizes a court in a participating county to order a person who is suffering from mental illness and is the subject of a petition to obtain assisted outpatient treatment if the court makes various findings including, among others, there has been a clinical determination that the person is unlikely to survive safely in the community without supervision, the person's condition is substantially deteriorating, and, in view of the person's treatment history and current behavior, the person is in need of assisted outpatient treatment in order to prevent a relapse or deterioration that would be likely to result in grave disability or serious harm to the person or to others. Existing law requires the petition to be accompanied by an affidavit of a licensed mental health treatment provider. Existing law authorizes the petition to be filed by the county behavioral health director, or the director's designee, in the superior court in the county in which the person who is the subject of the petition is present or reasonably believed to be present, in accordance with prescribed procedures.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 507	California SB 507 (20212022)	bill	Mental health services: assisted outpatient treatment.	enacted	Eggman	9	32	9	2021-02-17	2021-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/1c759b5c-3775-49e7-9e65-7dd759f069d2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB507	b7cf51b1b4840658836fcc49b5c12d3c4afc8a837a5bbc815eab7410a50b94b4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 507 (20212022) — Mental health services: assisted outpatient treatment.

The Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project Act of 2002, known as Laura's Law, commencing January 1, 2022, requires each county to offer specified mental health programs, unless a county or group of counties opts out by a resolution passed by the governing body, as specified. Existing law authorizes participating counties to pay for the services provided from moneys distributed to the counties from various continuously appropriated funds, including the Mental Health Services Fund, when included in a county plan, as specified. Existing law authorizes a court in a participating county to order a person who is suffering from mental illness and is the subject of a petition to obtain assisted outpatient treatment if the court makes various findings including, among others, there has been a clinical determination that the person is unlikely to survive safely in the community without supervision, the person's condition is substantially deteriorating, and, in view of the person's treatment history and current behavior, the person is in need of assisted outpatient treatment in order to prevent a relapse or deterioration that would be likely to result in grave disability or serious harm to the person or to others. Existing law requires the petition to be accompanied by an affidavit of a licensed mental health treatment provider. Existing law authorizes the petition to be filed by the county behavioral health director, or the director's designee, in the superior court in the county in which the person who is the subject of the petition is present or reasonably believed to be present, in accordance with prescribed procedures.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/11/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/25/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/08/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/17/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/28/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/30/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB507 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/01/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB507 Eggman et al. Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 507 Eggman Senate Third Reading By Quirk-Silva — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB507 Eggman et al. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eggman — primary (person)
• Glazer — coauthor (person)
• Melendez — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Stern — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 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.)
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH, JUD., and APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-03-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-16 Set for hearing March 24.
• 2021-03-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 605.) (March 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-26 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2021-04-07 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 687.) (April 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-08 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 Set for hearing May 3.
• 2021-05-04 May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1194.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1278.) 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 Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2476.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2212.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2021-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 426, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c759b5c-3775-49e7-9e65-7dd759f069d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).