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CA AB 416

enacted

Involuntary commitment.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 416 pass?

Yes. CA AB 416 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-13. Latest recorded action (2025-10-13): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 691, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 416 about?

Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental disorders. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to self or others, or gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody by specified individuals, including, among others, by a peace officer, a designated member of a mobile crisis team, or a professional person designated by the county, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services for up to 72 hours for evaluation and treatment. Existing law authorizes county behavioral health director to develop procedures for the county's designation and training of professionals who will be designated to perform the above-described provisions. Existing law authorizes the procedures to include, among others, the license types, practice disciplines, and clinical experience of the professionals eligible to be designated by the county. Existing law exempts specified individuals, including a peace officer responsible for the detainment of a person under these provisions from criminal and civil liability for an action by a person who is released at or before the end of the period for which they were detained. This bill would require a county behavioral health director to include an emergency physician, as defined, as one of the practice disciplines eligible to be designated by the county when developing and implementing procedures for the designation and training of those professionals. The bill would also exempt an emergency physician who is responsible for the detainment of a person under those provisions from criminal and civil liability, as specified.

Who sponsors CA AB 416?

Krell is the primary sponsor of CA AB 416, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Description

Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental disorders. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to self or others, or gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody by specified individuals, including, among others, by a peace officer, a designated member of a mobile crisis team, or a professional person designated by the county, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services for up to 72 hours for evaluation and treatment. Existing law authorizes county behavioral health director to develop procedures for the county's designation and training of professionals who will be designated to perform the above-described provisions. Existing law authorizes the procedures to include, among others, the license types, practice disciplines, and clinical experience of the professionals eligible to be designated by the county. Existing law exempts specified individuals, including a peace officer responsible for the detainment of a person under these provisions from criminal and civil liability for an action by a person who is released at or before the end of the period for which they were detained. This bill would require a county behavioral health director to include an emergency physician, as defined, as one of the practice disciplines eligible to be designated by the county when developing and implementing procedures for the designation and training of those professionals. The bill would also exempt an emergency physician who is responsible for the detainment of a person under those provisions from criminal and civil liability, as specified.

Introduced
2025-05-06
Latest action
2025-10-13 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 691, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Krellauthor
  • Gipsonprincipal coauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-05

    Read first time. To print.

    reading-1

  2. 2025-02-06

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.

  3. 2025-02-18

    Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-04-02

    Coauthors revised.

  5. 2025-04-02

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  6. 2025-05-06

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 6).

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  7. 2025-05-07

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

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  8. 2025-05-08

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  9. 2025-05-15

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1561.)

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  10. 2025-05-15

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  11. 2025-05-28

    Referred to Coms. on HEALTH, JUD. and APPR.

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  12. 2025-06-18

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  13. 2025-07-03

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  14. 2025-07-16

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 15).

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  15. 2025-07-17

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  16. 2025-08-18

    In committee: Referred to suspense file.

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  17. 2025-08-29

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  18. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).

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  19. 2025-09-03

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2453.).

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  20. 2025-09-04

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  21. 2025-09-04

    Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2930.).

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  22. 2025-09-11

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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  23. 2025-10-13

    Approved by the Governor.

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  24. 2025-10-13

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 691, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/05/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-05Compare
  • 05/07/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-05-07Compare
  • 07/17/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-07-17Compare
  • 09/08/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-08Compare
  • 10/13/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-13Compare
  • AB416Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]

    2025-04-01 · pass · 15-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Patel: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes

  • Do pass as amended.

    2025-05-06 · pass · 12-0

    Member-level votes (12)
    • Macedo: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Dixon: yes

  • AB 416 Krell Assembly Third Reading

    2025-05-15 · pass · 71-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Wilson: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Alanis: other
    • Tangipa: other
    • Arambula: other
    • Jeff Gonzalez: other
    • Pellerin: other
    • Quirk-Silva: other
    • Castillo: other
    • Stefani: other
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Ta: yes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]

    2025-07-02 · pass · 11-0

    Member-level votes (11)
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Menjivar: yes

  • Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-07-15 · pass · 13-0

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Caballero: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Durazo: yes

  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Grayson: yes

  • Do pass

    2025-08-29 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes

  • 3rd Reading AB416 Krell et al. By Menjivar

    2025-09-03 · pass · 40-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Becker: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Caballero: yes

  • AB 416 Krell Concurrence in Senate Amendments

    2025-09-04 · pass · 75-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Mark González: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Pellerin: other
    • Tangipa: other
    • Alvarez: other
    • Ahrens: other

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