---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medi-Cal: tobacco cessation services."
description: "Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law provides for a schedule of benefits under the Medi-Cal program. Existing law requires that preventive services assigned a grade of A or B by the United States Preventive Services Task Force be provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries without any cost sharing by the beneficiary in order for the state to receive increased federal contributions for those services, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1696"
citation: "California AB 1696 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medi-Cal: tobacco cessation services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holden"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2016-01-21"
last_action: "2016-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a757eda-9129-48f3-a76c-101fa6384b21"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1696"
source_hash: "3d30dc3e1bf089af4edd6635da0617abb6d2f881706d2a6777a0aa11b448b0d9"
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 1696 (20152016) — Medi-Cal: tobacco cessation services.

Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law provides for a schedule of benefits under the Medi-Cal program. Existing law requires that preventive services assigned a grade of A or B by the United States Preventive Services Task Force be provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries without any cost sharing by the beneficiary in order for the state to receive increased federal contributions for those services, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/21/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1696&version=20150AB169699INT)
2. **03/07/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1696&version=20150AB169698AMD)
3. **03/28/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1696&version=20150AB169697AMD)
4. **05/31/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1696&version=20150AB169696AMD)
5. **06/27/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1696&version=20150AB169695AMD)
6. **08/15/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1696&version=20150AB169694AMD)
7. **09/25/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1696&version=20150AB169692CHP)
8. **AB1696** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1696)
9. **08/25/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1696&version=20150AB169693ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **17–1** (pass) · lower
- AB 1696 HOLDEN Assembly Third Reading — **63–14** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1696 Holden By Pan — **29–8** (pass) · upper
- AB 1696 HOLDEN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **62–17** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **14–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Holden — primary (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-01-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-01-22** From printer. May be heard in committee February 21.
- **2016-02-08** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-08** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 1.) (March 15). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-03-28** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 6.) (May 27). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-05-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 14. Page 5213.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-09** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 22). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-27** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-01** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 5027.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 17. Page 6109.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 606, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a757eda-9129-48f3-a76c-101fa6384b21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).