---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human services: Medi-Cal."
description: "Human services: Medi-Cal."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 747"
citation: "California AB 747 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human services: Medi-Cal."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthews"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2003-02-19"
last_action: "2003-10-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd468f63-51f2-4042-bfb1-c97854e8ccb1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB747"
source_hash: "f2fdac6bd31dc263f0c5255bb89d25eded6f32458d7268d66576c767138ccab4"
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 747 (20032004) — Human services: Medi-Cal.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/19/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB747&version=20030AB74799INT)
2. **04/21/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB747&version=20030AB74798AMD)
3. **06/16/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB747&version=20030AB74797AMD)
4. **07/03/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB747&version=20030AB74796AMD)
5. **08/18/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB747&version=20030AB74795AMD)
6. **08/29/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB747&version=20030AB74794AMD)
7. **09/08/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB747&version=20030AB74793AMD)
8. **10/03/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB747&version=20030AB74791CHP)
9. **AB747** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB747)
10. **09/12/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB747&version=20030AB74792ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- special consent cale ab747 matthews by machado — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass and re-refer to committee on appropriations with recommendation: to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 747 matthews assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Matthews — primary (person)
- Figueroa — principal coauthor (person)
- La Malfa — author (person)
- Nakanishi — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2003-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 659, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2003-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3882.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2003-09-10** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2477.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-08** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-02** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-29** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-21** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-08-19** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 2047.)
- **2003-08-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-06-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-05** Referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-22** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1826.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-19** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 24. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-23** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 24. Noes 0.) (April 22). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-22** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Health. Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-03-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2003-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd468f63-51f2-4042-bfb1-c97854e8ccb1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).