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Bill	Lanterman-Petris-Short Act: hearings.	Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental health disorders for the protection of the persons so committed, and authorizes a conservator of the person, of the estate, or of the person and the estate to be appointed for a person who is gravely disabled as a result of a mental health disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism, and designates procedures for hearing a petition for that purpose. Existing law authorizes a party to a hearing under the act to demand that the hearing be public, and be held in a place suitable for attendance by the public.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 578	California SB 578 (20212022)	bill	Lanterman-Petris-Short Act: hearings.	enacted	Jones	6	26	6	2021-02-18	2021-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/ba3f1fa8-f1c9-48ba-a6d6-9fcd772f3f2c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB578	51aadbe50e4b6c4b60fbcd6bbb358e759d9c38a4d1a5b94f025de6f15a34de82	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 578 (20212022) — Lanterman-Petris-Short Act: hearings.

Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental health disorders for the protection of the persons so committed, and authorizes a conservator of the person, of the estate, or of the person and the estate to be appointed for a person who is gravely disabled as a result of a mental health disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism, and designates procedures for hearing a petition for that purpose. Existing law authorizes a party to a hearing under the act to demand that the hearing be public, and be held in a place suitable for attendance by the public.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/05/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/28/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB578 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/07/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB578 Jones Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar SB578 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 578 Jones Senate Third Reading By Stone — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
• 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.)
• 2021-03-03 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-03-05 Set for hearing March 16.
• 2021-03-05 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
• 2021-03-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 518.) (March 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-03-19 Set for hearing April 5.
• 2021-04-05 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 715.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-04-08 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-13 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 June 30 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2719.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-02 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-03 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2380.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2021-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 389, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ba3f1fa8-f1c9-48ba-a6d6-9fcd772f3f2c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).