---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medi-Cal: clinical laboratory and laboratory services."
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, until a specified rate methodology is approved by the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that reimbursement for clinical laboratory or laboratory services, as defined, may not exceed 80% of the lowest maximum allowance established by the federal Medicare Program for the same or similar services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 969"
citation: "California AB 969 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medi-Cal: clinical laboratory and laboratory services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atkins"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2012-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d92f23b-1881-40d3-bc84-d556283d0fa2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969"
source_hash: "66cf10e98e763f3e9c9bf4d9008199f6193c1c124d1c350370847bbf36005daa"
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 969 (20112012) — Medi-Cal: clinical laboratory and laboratory services.

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, until a specified rate methodology is approved by the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that reimbursement for clinical laboratory or laboratory services, as defined, may not exceed 80% of the lowest maximum allowance established by the federal Medicare Program for the same or similar services.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969&version=20110AB96999INT)
2. **01/23/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969&version=20110AB96997AMD)
3. **03/25/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969&version=20110AB96998AMD)
4. **06/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969&version=20110AB96996AMD)
5. **06/26/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969&version=20110AB96995AMD)
6. **09/29/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969&version=20110AB96993CHP)
7. **AB969** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969)
8. **08/31/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969&version=20110AB96994ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent #16 AB969 Atkins By Kehoe — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 969 ATKINS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 969 ATKINS Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Atkins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2011-03-25** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-27** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2012-01-19** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-01-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-01-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-01-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 3604.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-01-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-16** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-06-25** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-26** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-15** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2012-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4783.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
- **2012-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6362.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
- **2012-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 738, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d92f23b-1881-40d3-bc84-d556283d0fa2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).