---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medi-Cal: demonstration project waivers."
description: "Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 342"
citation: "California AB 342 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Medi-Cal: demonstration project waivers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John A. Perez"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 35
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2009-02-18"
last_action: "2010-10-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9085efcf-84f3-49c9-b7b4-8b340403f483"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB342"
source_hash: "fbb12ceb5eb60af536359063df0ed012e579253c5beb026cab0cd63f5bf81072"
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 342 (20092010) — Medi-Cal: demonstration project waivers.

Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB342&version=20090AB34299INT)
2. **04/13/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB342&version=20090AB34298AMD)
3. **05/18/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB342&version=20090AB34297AMD)
4. **06/23/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB342&version=20090AB34296AMD)
5. **08/02/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB342&version=20090AB34295AMD)
6. **10/06/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB342&version=20090AB34294AMD)
7. **10/19/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB342&version=20090AB34292CHP)
8. **AB342** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB342)
9. **10/11/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB342&version=20090AB34293ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 2nd Reading AB342 John A. Perez Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 342 PEREZ, J. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By MONNING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 342 BASS Third Reading Urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John A. Perez — primary (person)
- Monning — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2009-04-13** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-14** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-11** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-18** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 1543.). `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-28** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1724.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-04** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2010-06-23** 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-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-07-01** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2010-08-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-08-02** (Corrected August 4.)
- **2010-08-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (August 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-16** Received August 13 pursuant to Joint Rule 61(b)(14)
- **2010-08-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-23** To inactive file on motion of Senator Steinberg.
- **2010-10-06** From inactive file.
- **2010-10-06** To second reading.
- **2010-10-06** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-10-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-10-07** Joint Rule 10.5 suspended. (Page 5222.)
- **2010-10-07** Senate Rule 29.3 suspended.
- **2010-10-07** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 1. Page 5226.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-10-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2010-10-07** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 7148.)
- **2010-10-07** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 66. Noes 3. Page 7154.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-10-13** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **2010-10-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-10-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 723, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9085efcf-84f3-49c9-b7b4-8b340403f483`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).