--- type: "Bill" title: "Health." description: "(1) Existing law authorizes a sheriff to release a prisoner from a county correctional facility for transfer to a medical care facility or residential care facility upon the advice of a physician, as specified, or if the sheriff determines that the prisoner would not reasonably pose a threat to public safety and the prisoner, upon diagnosis by the examining physician, is deemed to have a life expectancy of 6 months or less, provided the sheriff gives specified notice to the superior court. Existing law also authorizes the sheriff to request the court to grant medical probation or to resentence a prisoner to medical probation in lieu of jail time if the prisoner is physically incapacitated with a medical condition that renders the prisoner permanently unable to perform activities of basic daily living, which has resulted in the prisoner requiring 24-hour care, and if that incapacitation did not exist at the time of sentencing or if the prisoner would require acute long-term inpatient rehabilitation services. Existing law requires a county that chooses to implement these provisions to pay the nonfederal share of a prisoner's or probationer's Medi-Cal costs for the period that the individual would have otherwise been incarcerated or been on medical probation. Existing law requires a county board of supervisors to adopt a process to fund the nonfederal share of Medi-Cal costs, as specified, before implementing the above-referenced provisions and to notify the State Department of Health Care Services of the process." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20132014" identifier: "AB 82" citation: "California AB 82 (20132014)" classification: ["bill", "appropriation"] subjects: ["Health."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"] version_count: 7 action_count: 29 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2013-01-10" last_action: "2013-06-27" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2603c3d4-ac65-4a1e-9f2b-187334cdfdb4" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB82" source_hash: "564f6af0d89c38782c547a39f5ef5c7beb316f9d056026e1c25d78770fe00136" 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 82 (20132014) — Health. (1) Existing law authorizes a sheriff to release a prisoner from a county correctional facility for transfer to a medical care facility or residential care facility upon the advice of a physician, as specified, or if the sheriff determines that the prisoner would not reasonably pose a threat to public safety and the prisoner, upon diagnosis by the examining physician, is deemed to have a life expectancy of 6 months or less, provided the sheriff gives specified notice to the superior court. Existing law also authorizes the sheriff to request the court to grant medical probation or to resentence a prisoner to medical probation in lieu of jail time if the prisoner is physically incapacitated with a medical condition that renders the prisoner permanently unable to perform activities of basic daily living, which has resulted in the prisoner requiring 24-hour care, and if that incapacitation did not exist at the time of sentencing or if the prisoner would require acute long-term inpatient rehabilitation services. Existing law requires a county that chooses to implement these provisions to pay the nonfederal share of a prisoner's or probationer's Medi-Cal costs for the period that the individual would have otherwise been incarcerated or been on medical probation. Existing law requires a county board of supervisors to adopt a process to fund the nonfederal share of Medi-Cal costs, as specified, before implementing the above-referenced provisions and to notify the State Department of Health Care Services of the process. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **01/10/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB82&version=20130AB8299INT) 2. **06/12/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB82&version=20130AB8298AMD) 3. **06/13/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB82&version=20130AB8297AMD) 4. **06/14/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB82&version=20130AB8296AMD) 5. **06/27/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB82&version=20130AB8294CHP) 6. **AB82** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB82) 7. **06/27/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB82&version=20130AB8295ENR) ## Votes - AB 82 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD — **51–24** (pass) · lower - 3rd Reading AB82 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) Amend by Anderson Lay on Table — **25–8** (pass) · upper - 3rd Reading AB82 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) By Leno — **36–0** (pass) · upper - AB 82 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BLUMENFIELD — **72–3** (pass) · lower - 3rd Reading AB82 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) Amend by Emmerson Lay on Table — **23–10** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Committee on Budget — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2013-01-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2013-01-11** From printer. May be heard in committee February 10. - **2013-03-14** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee` - **2013-05-09** Withdrawn from committee. - **2013-05-09** (Ayes 53. Noes 22. Page 1312.) - **2013-05-09** Ordered to second reading. - **2013-05-09** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 22. Page 1313.) - **2013-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2013-05-09** (Ayes 53. Noes 22. Page 1314.) - **2013-05-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 24. Page 1393.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage` - **2013-05-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2013-05-23** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee` - **2013-06-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee` - **2013-06-13** Withdrawn from committee. - **2013-06-13** (Ayes 23. Noes 9. Page 1337.) - **2013-06-13** Ordered to third reading. - **2013-06-13** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage` - **2013-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2013-06-14** Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. (Ayes 26. Noes 8. Page 1362.) - **2013-06-14** Joint Rule 10.5 suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1363.) - **2013-06-14** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1370.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage` - **2013-06-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1382.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage` - **2013-06-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. - **2013-06-15** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 2041.) - **2013-06-15** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 2041.) - **2013-06-15** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 3. Page 2042.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage` - **2013-06-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:15 p.m. - **2013-06-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2013-06-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 23, Statutes of 2013. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2603c3d4-ac65-4a1e-9f2b-187334cdfdb4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).