---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medi-Cal: community health workers: supervising providers."
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 individuals receive health care services through various delivery systems, including fee-for-service and managed care. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 1385"
citation: "California SB 1385 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medi-Cal", "community health workers", "supervising providers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roth"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8c8e105-04c8-4463-9e1c-ec5074c81704"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1385"
source_hash: "b1a64c0630da2383db6d039efc821b543df860c6cde28538ef06e5b00a7688a7"
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 1385 (20232024) — Medi-Cal: community health workers: supervising providers.

Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services through various delivery systems, including fee-for-service and managed care. 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. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1385&version=20230SB138599INT)
2. **03/20/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1385&version=20230SB138598AMD)
3. **06/05/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1385&version=20230SB138597AMD)
4. **07/18/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1385&version=20230SB138595CHP)
5. **SB1385** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1385)
6. **07/08/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1385&version=20230SB138596ENR)

## Votes

- SB 1385 Roth Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB1385 Roth et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent SB1385 Roth et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roth — primary (person)
- Atkins — coauthor (person)
- Blakespear — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — coauthor (person)
- McGuire — coauthor (person)
- Min — coauthor (person)
- Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Stern — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
- **2024-02-29** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2024-03-21** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04** Set for hearing April 10.
- **2024-04-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3562.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-12** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2024-04-22** April 22 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2024-05-10** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2024-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3981.) (May 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4133.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2024-06-03** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-05** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-12** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-19** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-06-19** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-20** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-06-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6038.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-06-27** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2024-07-01** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2024-07-03** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4933.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-07-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2024-07-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-07-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 164, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d8c8e105-04c8-4463-9e1c-ec5074c81704`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).