SACRAMENTO—California’s plan to push some homeless suffering from mental illness into court-ordered care moved forward April 26 following a unanimous vote in a Senate committee hearing.
“We have been investing billions and billions and billions of dollars into our mental health system [and] into our homelessness system,” bill co-author Sen. Susan Eggman (D-Stockton) said during the hearing. “We cannot continue to send billions of dollars to a system that is not responsive to the needs that we see every day on the streets.”
Eggman and Sen. Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana) authored Senate Bill 1338 following the introduction of the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court by Gov. Gavin Newsom in March.
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