CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 638

Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk-Silva

February 12, 2021

An act to amend Section 5343 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 638, as introduced, Quirk-Silva. Mental health and substance use disorders.
Existing law provides for the temporary involuntary commitment for evaluation and treatment of a person who is gravely disabled, as defined, as a danger to themselves or others, either as a result of a mental health disorder, or as a result of the use of controlled substances.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 5343 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:

5343.
 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any a person is a danger to others or to himself or herself, themselves, or gravely disabled, as a result of the use of controlled substances, he or she the person shall be subject, insofar as possible, to the provisions of Articles 1 (commencing with Section 5150), 2 (commencing with Section 5200), 4 (commencing with Section 5250), 5 (commencing with Section 5275), and 7 (commencing with Section 5325) of this chapter, except that any custody, evaluation and treatment, or any procedure pursuant to such those provisions shall only be related to to, and concerned with with, the problem of the person’s use of controlled substances.