republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-665.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Minors: consent to mental health services."
description: "Existing law, for some purposes, authorizes a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to mental health treatment or counseling on an outpatient basis, or to residential shelter services, if the minor is mature enough to participate intelligently in the outpatient services or residential shelter services, as specified, and either the minor would present a danger of serious physical or mental harm to themselves or to others or if the minor is the alleged victim of incest or child abuse. For other purposes, existing law authorizes a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to mental health treatment or counseling services if the minor is mature enough to participate intelligently in the outpatient services or counseling services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 665"
citation: "California AB 665 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Minors", "consent to mental health services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wendy Carrillo"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-13"
last_action: "2023-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b69c66bd-e810-412b-bab0-35d4ed7ed7a5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB665"
source_hash: "5aceb9808c01dfb062a705b4cb954802684a79fbb92e2347c872c2e33e8d3c40"
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 665 (20232024) — Minors: consent to mental health services.

Existing law, for some purposes, authorizes a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to mental health treatment or counseling on an outpatient basis, or to residential shelter services, if the minor is mature enough to participate intelligently in the outpatient services or residential shelter services, as specified, and either the minor would present a danger of serious physical or mental harm to themselves or to others or if the minor is the alleged victim of incest or child abuse. For other purposes, existing law authorizes a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to mental health treatment or counseling services if the minor is mature enough to participate intelligently in the outpatient services or counseling services.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB665&version=20230AB66599INT)
2. **06/12/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB665&version=20230AB66598AMD)
3. **10/07/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB665&version=20230AB66596CHP)
4. **AB665** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB665)
5. **09/11/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB665&version=20230AB66597ENR)

## Votes

- AB 665 Wendy Carrillo Assembly Third Reading — **55–9** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **9–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 665 Wendy Carrillo Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **60–16** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB665 Wendy Carrillo et al — **31–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wendy Carrillo — primary (person)
- Wiener — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-03-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (March 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 9. Page 1077.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-04-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-06** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-06-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 2417.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-06** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-09-07** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3011.)
- **2023-09-07** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 16. Page 3040.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2023-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 338, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b69c66bd-e810-412b-bab0-35d4ed7ed7a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).