---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medi-Cal Children's Health Advisory Panel."
description: "Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income persons receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal Children's Health Advisory Panel for the purpose of advising the department on matters relevant to all children enrolled in Medi-Cal and their families. Existing law specifies the composition of the members of the panel, which includes three members who are parents of children who have received specified Medi-Cal services. Existing law requires the department to pay a per-meeting stipend to each advisory panel member who is a Medi-Cal enrollee or parent of a Medi-Cal enrollee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 220"
citation: "California SB 220 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medi-Cal Children's Health Advisory Panel."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-02"
last_action: "2017-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9f33c20-3713-4bce-938b-6547fe2f49bd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB220"
source_hash: "e83108fc4587649805a0ccba613ec67ea6e8cb77ce23301368bfbcced388785e"
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 220 (20172018) — Medi-Cal Children's Health Advisory Panel.

Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income persons receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal Children's Health Advisory Panel for the purpose of advising the department on matters relevant to all children enrolled in Medi-Cal and their families. Existing law specifies the composition of the members of the panel, which includes three members who are parents of children who have received specified Medi-Cal services. Existing law requires the department to pay a per-meeting stipend to each advisory panel member who is a Medi-Cal enrollee or parent of a Medi-Cal enrollee.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/02/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB220&version=20170SB22099INT)
2. **03/20/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB220&version=20170SB22098AMD)
3. **09/25/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB220&version=20170SB22096CHP)
4. **SB220** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB220)
5. **09/07/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB220&version=20170SB22097ENR)

## Votes

- SB 220 Pan Senate Third Reading By ARAMBULA — **67–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-02** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-03** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 5.
- **2017-02-16** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-03-30** Set for hearing April 19.
- **2017-04-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1. Page 807.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-21** Set for hearing May 1.
- **2017-05-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 1064.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-16** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-26** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (June 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-05** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 67. Noes 4. Page 2954.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-05** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2017-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2017-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 280, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9f33c20-3713-4bce-938b-6547fe2f49bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).