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Bill	Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program: process and proceedings.	(1) Existing law, the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act, authorizes specified adult persons to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan and implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, including stabilization medication, housing, and other enumerated services, to adults who are currently experiencing a qualifying severe mental illness and who meet other specified criteria. Existing law authorizes specified individuals to file a petition to commence the CARE process, including, but not limited to, a person with whom the respondent resides or a spouse, parent, sibling, child, or grandparent or an individual who stands in loco parentis to the respondent. Existing law authorizes the court to assign ongoing notification rights if the original petitioner is a person with whom the respondent resides, or a spouse, parent, sibling, child, or grandparent or an individual who stands in loco parentis to the respondent.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 42	California SB 42 (20232024)	bill	Community Assistance Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program process and proceedings	enacted	Umberg	10	30	6	2022-12-05	2024-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/c494427c-a5a4-4189-9931-9aaf2fa0211a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB42	57fe97b39cd08d69fbe4fa4fee92b6663eadda42322513b2a703a93164173d1e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 42 (20232024) — Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program: process and proceedings.

(1) Existing law, the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act, authorizes specified adult persons to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan and implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, including stabilization medication, housing, and other enumerated services, to adults who are currently experiencing a qualifying severe mental illness and who meet other specified criteria. Existing law authorizes specified individuals to file a petition to commence the CARE process, including, but not limited to, a person with whom the respondent resides or a spouse, parent, sibling, child, or grandparent or an individual who stands in loco parentis to the respondent. Existing law authorizes the court to assign ongoing notification rights if the original petitioner is a person with whom the respondent resides, or a spouse, parent, sibling, child, or grandparent or an individual who stands in loco parentis to the respondent.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/11/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/15/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/19/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/27/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB42 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 42 Umberg Third Reading Urgency By Gipson — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB42 Umberg Urgency Clause Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Umberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-12-05 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-12-06 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
• 2023-01-18 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-04-12 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2023-05-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 1011.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1076.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-15 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-05-26 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-06-09 June 13 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-06-15 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
• 2023-06-20 June 20 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2024-06-11 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
• 2024-06-25 June 25 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-06-25 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
• 2024-07-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, 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 11. Noes 0.) (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.
• 2024-08-29 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6894.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-31 Urgency clause adopted.
• 2024-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5767.) 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 640, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c494427c-a5a4-4189-9931-9aaf2fa0211a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).