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Bill	Criminal procedure: 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 if the defendant is found incompetent to stand trial, the proceedings are suspended while the defendant receives treatment, with the goal of restoring the defendant to competency.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 1323	California SB 1323 (20232024)	bill	Criminal procedure competence to stand trial	enacted	Menjivar	10	31	8	2024-02-16	2024-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/8ae324c9-87ee-4633-b1fc-8a9be031e9fd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1323	cec910eb8bb1523ae66ff3d63526c52240e1c3dda6f904c7edc28c4c67f0d8bd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1323 (20232024) — Criminal procedure: 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 if the defendant is found incompetent to stand trial, the proceedings are suspended while the defendant receives treatment, with the goal of restoring the defendant to competency.

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 Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/11/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/19/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/22/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/27/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB1323 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB1323 Menjivar et al. Concurrence — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 10–3 (pass) · lower
• SB 1323 Menjivar Senate Third Reading By Hart — 56–15 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB1323 Menjivar et al. — 24–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Menjivar — primary (person)
• Stern — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-03-12 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2024-03-21 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
• 2024-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 3534.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2024-05-13 May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2024-05-14 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3979.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 10. Page 4176.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-06-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-06-11 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
• 2024-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-07 August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (August 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-26 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 56. Noes 15. Page 7043.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 5781.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2024-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 646, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ae324c9-87ee-4633-b1fc-8a9be031e9fd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).