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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Medi-Cal: graduate medical education payments."
+description: "Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and 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: "SB 246"
+citation: "California SB 246 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
+subjects: ["Medi-Cal", "graduatemedicaleducationpayments"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Grove"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2025-01-30"
+last_action: "2025-10-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d9d3230-f92d-4851-94a7-981581af1a93"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB246"
+source_hash: "689c1f133cfdbbfaa3333e0f930145f28b2c0661f69eb73067cba68a4d0dc6b8"
+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 246 (20252026) — Medi-Cal: graduate medical education payments.
+
+Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and 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. **01/30/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB246&version=20250SB24699INT)
+2. **10/03/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB246&version=20250SB24697CHP)
+3. **SB246** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB246)
+4. **09/08/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB246&version=20250SB24698ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+- SB 246 Grove Senate Third Reading By Hadwick — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+- Special Consent SB246 Grove et al. — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Grove — primary (person)
+- Caballero — author (person)
+- Dahle — coauthor (person)
+- Hurtado — coauthor (person)
+- Macedo — coauthor (person)
+- Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-30** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-02-03** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2.
+- **2025-02-14** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-17** Set for hearing April 2.
+- **2025-04-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 636.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Set for hearing April 21.
+- **2025-04-21** April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
+- **2025-05-16** Set for hearing May 23.
+- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1192.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-05-27** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2025-05-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1323.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-29** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-05** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-20** August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
+- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-04** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2907.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-04** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
+- **2025-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
+- **2025-10-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 308, 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/6d9d3230-f92d-4851-94a7-981581af1a93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+