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Bill	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 969	California AB 969 (20112012)	bill	Medi-Cal: clinical laboratory and laboratory services.	enacted	Atkins	8	27	7	2011-02-18	2012-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/6d92f23b-1881-40d3-bc84-d556283d0fa2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB969	66cf10e98e763f3e9c9bf4d9008199f6193c1c124d1c350370847bbf36005daa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. 01/23/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/25/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/26/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB969 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/31/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/6d92f23b-1881-40d3-bc84-d556283d0fa2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).