republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-359.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Breast and cervical cancer: early detection screening: digital mammography: reimbursement rates."
description: "Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income persons are provided with health care services, including breast and cervical cancer services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 359"
citation: "California AB 359 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Breast and cervical cancer: early detection screening: digital mammography: reimbursement rates."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nava"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 34
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2009-02-23"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc218030-dafc-471a-913a-7ff04d090e39"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB359"
source_hash: "ab6aca5ec4325fe021f87f5d667e901d47d75f9b3195eb69123fdeca4d545734"
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 359 (20092010) — Breast and cervical cancer: early detection screening: digital mammography: reimbursement rates.

Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income persons are provided with health care services, including breast and cervical cancer services.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB359&version=20090AB35999INT)
2. **04/15/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB359&version=20090AB35998AMD)
3. **06/02/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB359&version=20090AB35997AMD)
4. **07/15/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB359&version=20090AB35996AMD)
5. **09/04/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB359&version=20090AB35995AMD)
6. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB359&version=20090AB35993CHP)
7. **AB359** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB359)
8. **09/21/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB359&version=20090AB35994ENR)

## Votes

- AB 359 NAVA Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #21 AB359 Nava By Oropeza — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 359 Nava Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nava — primary (person)
- Blakeslee — coauthor (person)
- Maldonado — coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2009-03-09** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-31** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-04-14** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-04-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-29** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-02** Ordered to third reading.
- **2009-06-02** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 1980.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-18** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2009-07-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-07-14** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 8). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-15** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-17** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-08-24** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2009-08-31** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-08-31** (received by desk August 28, 2009 pursuant to JR61(a)(11))
- **2009-09-01** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-02** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-09-03** Ordered to third reading.
- **2009-09-04** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-08** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-09** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-09-10** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2390.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2009-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3365.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-28** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 435, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc218030-dafc-471a-913a-7ff04d090e39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).