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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Telehealth for All Act of 2025."
+description: "Existing law establishes 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."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "AB 688"
+citation: "California AB 688 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["TelehealthforAllActof2025"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mark González"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-02-14"
+last_action: "2025-10-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a7fa29e-8622-4ac6-a7c5-8c3e95283605"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB688"
+source_hash: "bb8902e476ab77de0e4144e393cd2bbf21b774b46ec34fac82ee5ad36f3e53ff"
+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 688 (20252026) — Telehealth for All Act of 2025.
+
+Existing law establishes 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.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/14/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB688&version=20250AB68899INT)
+2. **07/07/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB688&version=20250AB68898AMD)
+3. **10/07/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB688&version=20250AB68896CHP)
+4. **AB688** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB688)
+5. **09/02/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB688&version=20250AB68897ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 688 Mark González Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 688 Mark González Assembly Third Reading — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Consent Calendar 2nd AB688 Mark González et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mark González — primary (person)
+- Weber Pierson — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
+- **2025-03-03** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1845.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-11** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-07** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2025-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-08-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2251.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
+- **2025-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2761.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2025-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 437, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a7fa29e-8622-4ac6-a7c5-8c3e95283605`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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