Mental health disorders: language.

(1) Existing law refers to mentally disordered persons, or mentally defective persons in provisions relating to, among other things, education, social services, and civil law. Existing law also refers to the insane in provisions relating to, among other things, family law and social services. This bill would revise these provisions to instead refer to persons with a mental health disorder or persons who lack legal capacity to make decisions, respectively. The bill would make related technical changes. (2) Under the California Public Records Act, except for exempt records, every state or local agency, upon request, is required to make records available to any person upon payment of fees to cover costs. Existing law specifies records that are exempt from the Public Records Act based on above provisions. The bill would make conforming changes to the Public Records Act based on the above provisions. (3) The Irrigation District Law provides for the formation of irrigation districts with prescribed powers, including the power to levy an annual assessment upon the land in the district and to obtain a collector's deed against the property if the assessment is not paid. Existing law requires an action proceeding, defense, answer, or cross-complaint based on the invalidity or irregularity of the collector's deed to begin within one year after the recordation of the deed, unless otherwise specified, including when the owner of the land was, at the time of sale, a minor or insane person in which case the statute of limitations begins to run when the disability is removed. This bill would make a technical change to clarify that the statute of limitations is tolled if the owner is a minor or lacks mental capacity.