---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care: palliative care."
description: "Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits, including hospice benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. One of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed health care plans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 1004"
citation: "California SB 1004 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care: palliative care."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hernandez"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2014-02-13"
last_action: "2014-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/246c0314-4c19-49fa-9149-155d725816e4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1004"
source_hash: "735524869fd624be247cef318c3bbcf8b73fa52f230e3c0801ae1b7ee41e3f31"
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 1004 (20132014) — Health care: palliative care.

Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits, including hospice benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. One of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed health care plans.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1004&version=20130SB100499INT)
2. **05/05/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1004&version=20130SB100498AMD)
3. **08/18/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1004&version=20130SB100497AMD)
4. **08/22/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1004&version=20130SB100496AMD)
5. **09/25/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1004&version=20130SB100494CHP)
6. **SB1004** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1004)
7. **08/29/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1004&version=20130SB100495ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1004 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By EGGMAN — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1004 Hernandez Concurrence — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hernandez — primary (person)
- Wolk — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-13** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2014-02-14** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
- **2014-02-27** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-02** Set for hearing April 30.
- **2014-04-22** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-04-23** Set for hearing May 7.
- **2014-05-05** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-05-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3402.) (May 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-09** Set for hearing May 19.
- **2014-05-19** Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2014-05-20** Set for hearing May 23.
- **2014-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3707.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 3599.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-28** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2014-06-02** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-07-02** Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2014-08-14** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-22** Read third time and amended. (Page 6343.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-22** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-08-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6496.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-26** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2014-08-27** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4908.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2014-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 574, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/246c0314-4c19-49fa-9149-155d725816e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).