---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telehealth for All Act of 2025."
description: "Existing law establishes 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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 688"
citation: "California AB 688 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["TelehealthforAllActof2025"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark González"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-14"
last_action: "2025-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a7fa29e-8622-4ac6-a7c5-8c3e95283605"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB688"
source_hash: "bb8902e476ab77de0e4144e393cd2bbf21b774b46ec34fac82ee5ad36f3e53ff"
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 688 (20252026) — Telehealth for All Act of 2025.

Existing law establishes 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.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB688&version=20250AB68899INT)
2. **07/07/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB688&version=20250AB68898AMD)
3. **10/07/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB688&version=20250AB68896CHP)
4. **AB688** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB688)
5. **09/02/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB688&version=20250AB68897ENR)

## Votes

- AB 688 Mark González Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 688 Mark González Assembly Third Reading — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB688 Mark González et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mark González — primary (person)
- Weber Pierson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2025-03-03** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1845.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-11** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-07** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-08-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2251.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2761.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2025-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 437, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a7fa29e-8622-4ac6-a7c5-8c3e95283605`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).