republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2288.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Advance health care directives: mental health treatment."
description: "Existing law, the Health Care Decisions Law, authorizes an adult having capacity to give an individual health care instruction. Existing law authorizes the individual instruction to be limited to take effect only if a specified condition arises. Existing law authorizes a written advance health care directive to include the individual's nomination of a conservator of the person or estate or both, or a guardian of the person or estate or both, for consideration if protective proceedings for the individual's person or estate are thereafter commenced. Existing law also authorizes an adult having capacity to execute a power of attorney for health care to authorize an agent to make health care decisions for the principal, and authorizes the power of attorney to include individual health care instructions. Existing law authorizes the principal in a power of attorney for health care to grant authority to make decisions relating to the personal care of the principal, including, but not limited to, determining where the principal will live, providing meals, or hiring household employees. Existing law defines \"health care decision\" and \"health care\" for these purposes to mean any care, treatment, service, or procedure to maintain, diagnose, or otherwise affect a patient's physical or mental condition."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2288"
citation: "California AB 2288 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Advance health care directives: mental health treatment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Choi"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-02-16"
last_action: "2022-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a52df351-de9d-4747-b1e3-554ce1fed2de"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2288"
source_hash: "8806acd14e34fb771d37c3ccf2be9a59dbc6e3f477de092f7e8f30977d970935"
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 2288 (20212022) — Advance health care directives: mental health treatment.

Existing law, the Health Care Decisions Law, authorizes an adult having capacity to give an individual health care instruction. Existing law authorizes the individual instruction to be limited to take effect only if a specified condition arises. Existing law authorizes a written advance health care directive to include the individual's nomination of a conservator of the person or estate or both, or a guardian of the person or estate or both, for consideration if protective proceedings for the individual's person or estate are thereafter commenced. Existing law also authorizes an adult having capacity to execute a power of attorney for health care to authorize an agent to make health care decisions for the principal, and authorizes the power of attorney to include individual health care instructions. Existing law authorizes the principal in a power of attorney for health care to grant authority to make decisions relating to the personal care of the principal, including, but not limited to, determining where the principal will live, providing meals, or hiring household employees. Existing law defines "health care decision" and "health care" for these purposes to mean any care, treatment, service, or procedure to maintain, diagnose, or otherwise affect a patient's physical or mental condition.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2288&version=20210AB228899INT)
2. **03/17/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2288&version=20210AB228898AMD)
3. **06/20/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2288&version=20210AB228896CHP)
4. **AB2288** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2288)
5. **06/10/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2288&version=20210AB228897ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2288 Choi Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB2288 — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Choi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2022-03-03** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-03-21** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24** Measure version as amended on March 17 corrected. `amendment-passage`
- **2022-04-20** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4469.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-04-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-11** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 31). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4130.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-09** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2022-06-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 21, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a52df351-de9d-4747-b1e3-554ce1fed2de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).