California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill
AB 1205: Mental health services: assisted outpatient treatment.
Did not advance Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
- Did not advance
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
AB 1205 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Mental health services: assisted outpatient treatment. Primary sponsor: Al Muratsuchi (D). Most recent recorded action (February 2, 2026): Died at Desk.
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Official summary
Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.
Existing law, known as Laura’s Law, requires a county or group of counties to provide assisted outpatient treatment as part of mental health services, unless a county or group of counties opts out by a resolution passed by the governing body, as specified. Existing law authorizes participating counties to pay for the services using moneys distributed to the counties from various continuously appropriated funds, including the Behavioral Health Services Fund when included in a county plan, as specified.
For participating counties, existing law authorizes a court to order a person who is the subject of a certain petition to obtain assisted outpatient treatment if the court finds, by clear and convincing evidence, that various conditions are met, including, among others, that the person is experiencing a mental illness and that the person has a history of lack of compliance with treatment for their mental illness, as specified. Existing law sets forth certain rights of the person relating to the hearing and imposes conditions on an extension to an initial treatment order.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Muratsuchi | Primary sponsor | Democratic | Assembly | 66 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Died at Desk.
- Read first time.
- From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- Introduced. To print.