---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public health care: Medi-Cal: demonstration projects."
description: "Existing law provides for 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. Existing law provides for the Health Care Coverage Initiative, which is a federal waiver demonstration project established to expand health care coverage to low-income uninsured individuals who are not currently eligible for the Medi-Cal program and other specified public health coverage programs. Existing law requires the department, pursuant to federal approval of a successor demonstration project, to authorize a local Low Income Health Program (LIHP) to provide health care services to eligible low-income individuals under certain circumstances. Under existing law, a county, city and county, consortium of counties serving a region of more than one county, or a health authority may be eligible to operate an approved LIHP. Existing law establishes the continuously appropriated LIHP Fund, which consists of moneys transferred to the fund from a participating entity to meet the nonfederal share of estimated payments to the LIHP."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 1081"
citation: "California SB 1081 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Public health care: Medi-Cal: demonstration projects."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fuller"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2012-02-14"
last_action: "2012-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4963f2e0-404c-4d38-b0e3-f633f197f09b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1081"
source_hash: "01c04a2715e7ea2ce31c1884097770d6fe53f5ef9a678299f5850c94369e8beb"
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 1081 (20112012) — Public health care: Medi-Cal: demonstration projects.

Existing law provides for 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. Existing law provides for the Health Care Coverage Initiative, which is a federal waiver demonstration project established to expand health care coverage to low-income uninsured individuals who are not currently eligible for the Medi-Cal program and other specified public health coverage programs. Existing law requires the department, pursuant to federal approval of a successor demonstration project, to authorize a local Low Income Health Program (LIHP) to provide health care services to eligible low-income individuals under certain circumstances. Under existing law, a county, city and county, consortium of counties serving a region of more than one county, or a health authority may be eligible to operate an approved LIHP. Existing law establishes the continuously appropriated LIHP Fund, which consists of moneys transferred to the fund from a participating entity to meet the nonfederal share of estimated payments to the LIHP.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1081&version=20110SB108199INT)
2. **04/10/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1081&version=20110SB108198AMD)
3. **05/07/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1081&version=20110SB108197AMD)
4. **06/20/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1081&version=20110SB108196AMD)
5. **08/20/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1081&version=20110SB108195AMD)
6. **09/22/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1081&version=20110SB108193CHP)
7. **SB1081** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1081)
8. **08/31/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1081&version=20110SB108194ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1081 Fuller Third Reading Urgency By CONWAY — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #10 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1081 Fuller Urgency Clause Concurrence — **30–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fuller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2012-02-15** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
- **2012-03-01** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-09** Set for hearing March 28.
- **2012-04-09** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3036.) (March 28). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-10** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-04-20** Set for hearing April 30.
- **2012-05-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3387.) (April 30). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-07** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-07** Ordered to second reading.
- **2012-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-09** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2012-05-14** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3496.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-14** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-25** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-20** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-09** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-16** From consent calendar.
- **2012-08-16** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-20** Read third time and amended. (Page 6003.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-20** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-27** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6340.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-28** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2012-08-29** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 4963.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 453, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4963f2e0-404c-4d38-b0e3-f633f197f09b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).