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Bill	Courts: mental health advisement.	The Trial Jury Selection and Management Act requires all persons be selected for jury service at random, from a source or sources inclusive of a representative cross section of the population of the area served by the court. Existing law requires the court, in a criminal jury trial, to conduct an initial examination of prospective jurors.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2985	California AB 2985 (20232024)	bill	Courts mental health advisement	enacted	Hart	9	27	7	2024-02-16	2024-08-26	openstates	ocd-bill/cdf8584e-3c39-4224-a343-b7a33824c955	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2985	7e5b88d0bfcd790b86834b47d6672cb6933e73ac9a38f4de8801791df36ac779	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2985 (20232024) — Courts: mental health advisement.

The Trial Jury Selection and Management Act requires all persons be selected for jury service at random, from a source or sources inclusive of a representative cross section of the population of the area served by the court. Existing law requires the court, in a criminal jury trial, to conduct an initial examination of prospective jurors.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/04/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/18/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/26/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2985 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/12/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2985 Hart Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2985 Hart Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 72–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hart — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2024-03-21 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 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
• 2024-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 9). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-10 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 24). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5090.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-15 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-06-04 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
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-06-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-07-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4973.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6238.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2024-08-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-08-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 204, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cdf8584e-3c39-4224-a343-b7a33824c955. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).