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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Medi-Cal: clinical laboratory and laboratory services."
+description: "Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law provides, until a specified rate methodology is approved by the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that reimbursement for clinical laboratory or laboratory services, as defined, may not exceed 80% of the lowest maximum allowance established by the federal Medicare Program for the same or similar services."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20112012"
+identifier: "AB 969"
+citation: "California AB 969 (20112012)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Medi-Cal: clinical laboratory and laboratory services."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Atkins"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2011-02-18"
+last_action: "2012-09-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d92f23b-1881-40d3-bc84-d556283d0fa2"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969"
+source_hash: "66cf10e98e763f3e9c9bf4d9008199f6193c1c124d1c350370847bbf36005daa"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 969 (20112012) — Medi-Cal: clinical laboratory and laboratory services.
+
+Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law provides, until a specified rate methodology is approved by the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that reimbursement for clinical laboratory or laboratory services, as defined, may not exceed 80% of the lowest maximum allowance established by the federal Medicare Program for the same or similar services.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969&version=20110AB96999INT)
+2. **01/23/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969&version=20110AB96997AMD)
+3. **03/25/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969&version=20110AB96998AMD)
+4. **06/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969&version=20110AB96996AMD)
+5. **06/26/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969&version=20110AB96995AMD)
+6. **09/29/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969&version=20110AB96993CHP)
+7. **AB969** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969)
+8. **08/31/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969&version=20110AB96994ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Special Consent #16 AB969 Atkins By Kehoe — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 969 ATKINS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 969 ATKINS Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Atkins — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2011-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
+- **2011-03-25** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-03-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-04-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-05-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-05-27** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2012-01-19** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-01-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-01-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2012-01-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 3604.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2012-01-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2012-02-16** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-06-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2012-06-25** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-06-26** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2012-08-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-08-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2012-08-15** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2012-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4783.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2012-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2012-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
+- **2012-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6362.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
+- **2012-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2012-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 738, Statutes of 2012.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d92f23b-1881-40d3-bc84-d556283d0fa2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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