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Bill	Criminal procedure: competence to stand trial.	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 1400	California SB 1400 (20232024)	bill	Criminal procedure competence to stand trial	enacted	Stern	7	35	8	2024-02-16	2024-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/cea08023-b89a-499e-a82e-e3bb1d5dcb6e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1400	e2f57c69b4ec61aedfa547f0951fbac6b7a95a36bc702bd75d00fa8184f9cfee	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1400 (20232024) — Criminal procedure: competence to stand trial.

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. 04/11/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/26/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/27/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB1400 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB1400 Stern et al. Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB1400 Stern et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1400 Stern Senate Third Reading By McCarty — 64–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Stern — primary (person)
• Archuleta — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Hurtado — coauthor (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
• 2024-03-13 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2024-04-09 April 9 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2024-04-11 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2024-04-11 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
• 2024-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3731.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-26 Set for hearing May 6.
• 2024-05-06 May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2024-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3982.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4104.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-05-28 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 18). 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. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-26 Joint Rule 61(b)(16) suspended. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 6493.)
• 2024-08-26 Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended.
• 2024-08-26 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-26 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2024-08-27 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
• 2024-08-28 Assembly Rule 96 suspended.
• 2024-08-28 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2024-08-28 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 64. Noes 1. Page 7109.) 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 38. Noes 0. Page 5801.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-12 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 647, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cea08023-b89a-499e-a82e-e3bb1d5dcb6e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).