republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1470.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental health: State Department of State Hospitals."
description: "Existing law provides for state hospitals for the care, treatment, and education of mentally disordered persons. These hospitals are under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health, which is authorized by existing law to adopt regulations regarding the conduct and management of these facilities. Existing law establishes the Mental Health Subaccount of the Sales Tax Account in the continuously appropriated Local Revenue Fund for allocation into the mental health account of each local health and welfare trust fund, as specified. Existing law establishes the Mental Health Facilities Fund, which consists of the continuously appropriated State Hospital Account and the continuously appropriated Institutions for Mental Disease Account, and requires disbursement monthly of funds deposited to those accounts to the State Department of Mental Health, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1470"
citation: "California AB 1470 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Mental health: State Department of State Hospitals."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2012-01-10"
last_action: "2012-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f33b9612-6673-4db5-aebf-61127632109c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1470"
source_hash: "502e009669908671a0f3124cf993ac5f84e092fb264872d31acfe7998ac430f1"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1470 (20112012) — Mental health: State Department of State Hospitals.

Existing law provides for state hospitals for the care, treatment, and education of mentally disordered persons. These hospitals are under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health, which is authorized by existing law to adopt regulations regarding the conduct and management of these facilities. Existing law establishes the Mental Health Subaccount of the Sales Tax Account in the continuously appropriated Local Revenue Fund for allocation into the mental health account of each local health and welfare trust fund, as specified. Existing law establishes the Mental Health Facilities Fund, which consists of the continuously appropriated State Hospital Account and the continuously appropriated Institutions for Mental Disease Account, and requires disbursement monthly of funds deposited to those accounts to the State Department of Mental Health, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/10/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1470&version=20110AB147099INT)
2. **06/13/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1470&version=20110AB147098AMD)
3. **06/27/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1470&version=20110AB147096CHP)
4. **AB1470** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1470)
5. **06/21/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1470&version=20110AB147097ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1470 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BLUMENFIELD — **51–26** (pass) · lower
- AB 1470 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD — **47–23** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1470 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) By Leno — **25–14** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-01-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-01-11** From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
- **2012-02-09** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-19** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 46. Noes 24. Page 4011.)
- **2012-03-19** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 46. Noes 24. Page 4011.)
- **2012-03-19** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2012-03-19** Ordered to second reading.
- **2012-03-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-03-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 23. Page 4085.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-03-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-04-19** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-07** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-06-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-06-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 14. Page 3938.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-06-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-06-15** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 5328.)
- **2012-06-15** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 5328.)
- **2012-06-15** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 51. Noes 26. Page 5328.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-06-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2012-06-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-06-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 24, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f33b9612-6673-4db5-aebf-61127632109c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).