---
type: "Bill"
title: "Drug Medi-Cal."
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 establishes the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program (Drug Medi-Cal) under which the department is authorized to enter into contracts with counties for various drug treatment services to Medi-Cal recipients, or is required to directly arrange for these services if a county elects not to do so. Existing law requires a county to negotiate contracts only with providers certified to provide Drug Medi-Cal services. Existing law defines Drug Medi-Cal reimbursable services for purposes of these provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1967"
citation: "California AB 1967 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drug Medi-Cal."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pan"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-19"
last_action: "2014-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52c7d856-e797-4c0e-91d5-767a6666d54c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1967"
source_hash: "73f7e3e785120e628cab5ab2e1253bb10425db6fe9880402f4dd4bfc23e10851"
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 1967 (20132014) — Drug Medi-Cal.

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 establishes the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program (Drug Medi-Cal) under which the department is authorized to enter into contracts with counties for various drug treatment services to Medi-Cal recipients, or is required to directly arrange for these services if a county elects not to do so. Existing law requires a county to negotiate contracts only with providers certified to provide Drug Medi-Cal services. Existing law defines Drug Medi-Cal reimbursable services for purposes of these provisions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1967&version=20130AB196799INT)
2. **03/28/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1967&version=20130AB196798AMD)
3. **04/10/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1967&version=20130AB196797AMD)
4. **07/01/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1967&version=20130AB196796AMD)
5. **09/19/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1967&version=20130AB196794CHP)
6. **AB1967** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1967)
7. **08/22/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1967&version=20130AB196795ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1967 PAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1967 PAN Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1967 Pan By Cannella — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **19–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2014-03-28** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-09** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-10** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4848.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-08** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-22** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-28** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2014-06-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-06-18** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2014-06-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-07-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4646.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-21** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6285.)
- **2014-08-21** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6286.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2014-09-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 461, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/52c7d856-e797-4c0e-91d5-767a6666d54c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).