California Penal Code

§ 2603

PEN § 2603 Effective Jan 1, 2025Title 1 · Part 3 · Ch. 3 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)Except as provided in subdivision (b), no person sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail shall be administered any psychiatric medication without prior informed consent.

(b)If a psychiatrist determines that an inmate should be treated with psychiatric medication, but the inmate does not consent, the inmate may be involuntarily treated with the medication. Treatment may be given on either a nonemergency basis as provided in subdivision (c), or on an emergency or interim basis as provided in subdivision (d).

(c)A county department of mental health, or other designated county department, may seek to initiate involuntary medication on a nonemergency basis only if all of the following conditions have been met:

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Legislative history

Amended (as amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 434, Sec. 12) by Stats. 2024, Ch. 326, Sec. 2. (SB 1317) Effective January 1, 2025. Section operative January 1, 2030, by its own provisions.