---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medi-Cal: home- and community-based services: military."
description: "Existing law establishes 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 services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing federal law provides for various home- and community-based services (HCBS) , as part of a waiver or a state plan amendment under the Medicaid program, to promote coverage and services that enable an individual who would otherwise be institutionalized to live at home or in the community."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 289"
citation: "California SB 289 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medi-Cal: home- and community-based services: military."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Archuleta"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 37
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ec32d18-7e68-48ef-93d0-69eb8c7c7730"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB289"
source_hash: "23817db1b84bb28d2f84bc09d928dd2580792a3aa84bbca85a3b047eec20992d"
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 289 (20192020) — Medi-Cal: home- and community-based services: military.

Existing law establishes 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 services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing federal law provides for various home- and community-based services (HCBS) , as part of a waiver or a state plan amendment under the Medicaid program, to promote coverage and services that enable an individual who would otherwise be institutionalized to live at home or in the community.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB289&version=20190SB28999INT)
2. **03/25/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB289&version=20190SB28998AMD)
3. **04/08/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB289&version=20190SB28997AMD)
4. **07/01/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB289&version=20190SB28996AMD)
5. **09/06/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB289&version=20190SB28995AMD)
6. **10/12/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB289&version=20190SB28993CHP)
7. **SB289** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB289)
8. **09/13/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB289&version=20190SB28994ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Veterans Affairs] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 289 Archuleta Senate Third Reading By Irwin — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Veterans Affairs] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB289 Archuleta et al. Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent SB289 — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Archuleta — primary (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Nielsen — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-15** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Set for hearing March 27.
- **2019-03-18** March 27 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-03-19** Set for hearing April 3.
- **2019-03-25** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on V.A. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 576.) (April 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-08** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on V.A. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** Set for hearing April 23.
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 807.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-26** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2019-05-06** May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2019-05-10** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1095.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-21** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2019-05-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1273.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-24** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-06** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on V.A. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on V.A. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on V.A. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-10** Coauthors revised.
- **2019-07-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-14** August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2019-08-30** Coauthors revised.
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-06** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-06** Ordered to third reading.
- **2019-09-10** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3264.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-10** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-09-11** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2019-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2866.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2019-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 846, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ec32d18-7e68-48ef-93d0-69eb8c7c7730`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).