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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Medi-Cal: managed care organization tax."
+description: "(1) Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care plans. Existing law, until July 1, 2016, imposes a sales tax on sellers of Medi-Cal managed care plans."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016 Special Session 2"
+identifier: "SB 2"
+citation: "California SB 2 (20152016 Special Session 2)"
+classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
+subjects: ["Medi-Cal: managed care organization tax."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hernandez"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2015-07-06"
+last_action: "2016-03-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f8ac8b3-1dd9-404c-aaf1-f21491284000"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB2"
+source_hash: "8db13e96b674241ac314a215875b8ba7eba35d649d862d7b183bdacbfa7b9d41"
+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 SB 2 (20152016 Special Session 2) — Medi-Cal: managed care organization tax.
+
+(1) Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care plans. Existing law, until July 1, 2016, imposes a sales tax on sellers of Medi-Cal managed care plans.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **07/06/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB2&version=20152SB299INT)
+2. **02/22/16 - Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB2&version=20152SB297AMD)
+3. **03/01/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB2&version=20152SB295CHP)
+4. **09/04/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB2&version=20152SB298AMD)
+5. **SB2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB2)
+6. **02/29/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB2&version=20152SB296ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading — **25–13** (pass) · upper
+- SB 2 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By BONTA — **53–1** (pass) · lower
+- SB 2 Hernandez Conference Report By BONTA — **61–16** (pass) · lower
+- Unfinished Business SB2 Hernandez Concurrence — **1–39** (fail) · upper
+- Conference Report — **28–11** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hernandez — primary (person)
+- Bonta — coauthor (person)
+- Levine — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-07-06** Introduced. `introduction`
+- **2015-07-06** Read first time. `reading-1`
+- **2015-07-06** To print.
+- **2015-07-06** Ordered to second reading.
+- **2015-07-07** From printer.
+- **2015-07-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-09-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 58.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-09-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2015-09-04** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 28. Page 76.)
+- **2015-09-04** Without reference to committee or file. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-09-04** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-09-04** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2015-09-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 53. Noes 1. Page 89.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-09-09** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2015-09-10** Senate refused to concur in Assembly amendments. (Ayes 1. Noes 39. Page 77.) `committee-failure, amendment-failure`
+- **2015-09-10** Ordered to Conference Committee. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-09-23** Assembly Members Bonta (Co-Chair), Bonilla, Gallagher, Patterson and Santiago appointed to Conference Committee.
+- **2015-09-24** Senators Hernandez (Co-Chair), Leno, Mitchell, Nielsen and vacancy appointed to Conference Committee.
+- **2016-02-08** Senator Anderson appointed to Conference Committee.
+- **2016-02-09** Set for hearing February 10.
+- **2016-02-09** February 10 hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2016-02-19** Set for hearing February 22.
+- **2016-02-22** From Conference Committee: Be adopted. (Ayes 6: Senators Mitchell, Leno and Hernandez, Assembly Members Bonilla, Santiago and Bonta. Noes 4: Senators Nielsen and Anderson, Assembly Members Gallagher and Patterson)
+- **2016-02-22** To print.
+- **2016-02-23** From printer.
+- **2016-02-29** Senate adopted Conference Committee report. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 92.) `committee-passage`
+- **2016-02-29** Assembly adopted Conference Committee report. (Ayes 61. Noes 16. Page 161.) `committee-passage`
+- **2016-03-01** Ordered to enrgrossing and enrolling.
+- **2016-03-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
+- **2016-03-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2016-03-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 2, Statutes of 2015-16 Second Extraordinary Session.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f8ac8b3-1dd9-404c-aaf1-f21491284000`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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