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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Mental health."
+description: "Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law provides that specialty mental health services are covered under the Medi-Cal program for eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries and coverage for those services is provided through mental health managed care plans."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 2393"
+citation: "California AB 2393 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Mental health."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Health"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2018-02-14"
+last_action: "2018-07-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/abfad087-86bd-4ba1-b7b1-6f86a8523f37"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2393"
+source_hash: "2df6174e75ef75434f6eddc147c0a3b75a4b389a7714822053022222ab9062a4"
+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 2393 (20172018) — Mental health.
+
+Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law provides that specialty mental health services are covered under the Medi-Cal program for eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries and coverage for those services is provided through mental health managed care plans.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/14/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2393&version=20170AB239399INT)
+2. **05/22/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2393&version=20170AB239398AMD)
+3. **07/09/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2393&version=20170AB239396CHP)
+4. **AB2393** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2393)
+5. **06/22/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2393&version=20170AB239397ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 2393 HEALTH Concurrence in Senate Amendments By WOOD — **74–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+- Consent Calendar AB2393 HEALTH — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 2393 HEALTH Consent Calendar Second Day By WOOD — **71–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Committee on Health — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
+- **2018-03-01** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-01** Coauthors revised.
+- **2018-04-11** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-04-12** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-04-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4789.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-04-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2018-05-03** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-06-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-06-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-06-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4664.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-06-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2018-06-21** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5927.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2018-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2018-07-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-07-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 77, Statutes of 2018.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/abfad087-86bd-4ba1-b7b1-6f86a8523f37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+