---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medi-Cal: managed care: language assistance services."
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. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care plans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 505"
citation: "California AB 505 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medi-Cal: managed care: language assistance services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nazarian"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2014-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41400ed4-c195-4313-a698-900c4d1b57ac"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB505"
source_hash: "a6a54276a9f86fdd95ec6e6358e49d03f00204050f52a9ed7e6e1a44649721e9"
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 505 (20132014) — Medi-Cal: managed care: language assistance services.

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. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care plans.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB505&version=20130AB50599INT)
2. **04/17/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB505&version=20130AB50598AMD)
3. **05/19/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB505&version=20130AB50594AMD)
4. **06/04/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB505&version=20130AB50597AMD)
5. **06/14/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB505&version=20130AB50596AMD)
6. **06/19/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB505&version=20130AB50595AMD)
7. **09/29/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB505&version=20130AB50592CHP)
8. **AB505** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB505)
9. **08/21/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB505&version=20130AB50593ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 505 NAZARIAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 505 NAZARIAN Assembly Third Reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB505 Nazarian By Hernandez — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nazarian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2013-03-04** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-17** 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`
- **2013-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1460.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-29** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-04** 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, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-13** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-06-14** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-19** 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, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-12** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator De León.
- **2014-05-19** From inactive file.
- **2014-05-19** Ordered to second reading.
- **2014-05-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 3. Page 4298.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-04** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 6 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-19** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6173.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2014-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 788, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41400ed4-c195-4313-a698-900c4d1b57ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).