---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medi-Cal: managed care."
description: "Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, pursuant to which medical benefits are provided to public assistance recipients and other low-income persons. Existing law provides for the department to enter into contracts with managed care systems, hospitals, and prepaid health plans for the provision of various Medi-Cal benefits. Existing law prohibits services covered by the California Children's Services program (CCS) from being incorporated into a Medi-Cal managed care contract entered into after August 1, 1994, until January 1, 2012, except with respect to contracts entered into for county organized health systems in specified counties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 301"
citation: "California AB 301 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medi-Cal: managed care."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pan"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2011-02-09"
last_action: "2011-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5bfd0975-2a64-4579-b085-036607bb8716"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB301"
source_hash: "d8e8576ca67eb1089b0b2af26fb6afaea4c698a3bb939ef3417de9a0a77f7563"
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 301 (20112012) — Medi-Cal: managed care.

Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, pursuant to which medical benefits are provided to public assistance recipients and other low-income persons. Existing law provides for the department to enter into contracts with managed care systems, hospitals, and prepaid health plans for the provision of various Medi-Cal benefits. Existing law prohibits services covered by the California Children's Services program (CCS) from being incorporated into a Medi-Cal managed care contract entered into after August 1, 1994, until January 1, 2012, except with respect to contracts entered into for county organized health systems in specified counties.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/09/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB301&version=20110AB30199INT)
2. **06/14/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB301&version=20110AB30198AMD)
3. **06/23/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB301&version=20110AB30197AMD)
4. **08/30/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB301&version=20110AB30196AMD)
5. **10/04/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB301&version=20110AB30194CHP)
6. **AB301** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB301)
7. **09/09/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB301&version=20110AB30195ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 301 PAN Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent #9 AB301 Pan By Kehoe — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 301 PAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **19–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pan — primary (person)
- Beall — coauthor (person)
- Carter — coauthor (person)
- Dickinson — coauthor (person)
- Logue — coauthor (person)
- Solorio — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-10** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
- **2011-02-24** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-04-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1042.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-04-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-12** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-13** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 8). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-14** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-27** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2011-08-29** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-31** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2011-09-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2320.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-09-07** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2978.)
- **2011-09-07** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2978.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2011-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 460, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5bfd0975-2a64-4579-b085-036607bb8716`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).