---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medi-Cal: family respite care."
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. Existing law provides that pediatric day health care is a covered benefit under the Medi-Cal program and that pediatric day health care does not include inpatient long-term care or family respite care."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 781"
citation: "California AB 781 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medi-Cal: family respite care."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-19"
last_action: "2019-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5dd904f-eaf0-4537-b324-52e2ba67e46d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB781"
source_hash: "88117d20a9d32b06716ef0dd015fc89a7c6de836eb20a10d6f0486c93e318181"
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 781 (20192020) — Medi-Cal: family respite care.

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. Existing law provides that pediatric day health care is a covered benefit under the Medi-Cal program and that pediatric day health care does not include inpatient long-term care or family respite care.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB781&version=20190AB78199INT)
2. **03/28/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB781&version=20190AB78198AMD)
3. **06/10/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB781&version=20190AB78197AMD)
4. **07/09/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB781&version=20190AB78195CHP)
5. **AB781** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB781)
6. **06/28/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB781&version=20190AB78196ENR)

## Votes

- AB 781 Maienschein Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 781 Maienschein Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar AB781 — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Maienschein — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-28** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-01** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1040.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-06** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 5). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-10** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-06-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1607.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-06-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-06-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2453.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-07-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-07-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 64, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5dd904f-eaf0-4537-b324-52e2ba67e46d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).