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Bill	Medi-Cal: durable medical equipment reimbursement.	Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law requires the department to establish a list of covered services and maximum allowable reimbursement rates for durable medical equipment, as defined. Existing law requires that reimbursement for all durable medical equipment billed to the Medi-Cal program using codes with no specified maximum allowable rate be the lesser of certain amounts, including the manufacturer's suggested retail price on June 1, 2006, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 728	California SB 728 (20112012)	bill	Medi-Cal: durable medical equipment reimbursement.	enacted	Negrete McLeod	7	31	9	2011-02-18	2012-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/a2daf1cf-2e3e-45a7-949c-551d86f12078	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB728	0b04a5a2eeaaaaa2441d61dbdc7964913f82f628f28feb50607367e4ed45efcf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 728 (20112012) — Medi-Cal: durable medical equipment reimbursement.

Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law requires the department to establish a list of covered services and maximum allowable reimbursement rates for durable medical equipment, as defined. Existing law requires that reimbursement for all durable medical equipment billed to the Medi-Cal program using codes with no specified maximum allowable rate be the lesser of certain amounts, including the manufacturer's suggested retail price on June 1, 2006, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/22/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB728 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/27/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB728 Negrete McLeod Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• SB 728 Negrete McLeod Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• From committee: That the Assembly Amendments be concurred in. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Negrete McLeod — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2011-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-04-08 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2011-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 675.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-21 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2011-05-02 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2011-05-20 Set for hearing May 26.
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 1121.) (May 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 12. Page 1247.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-09 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-06-21 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-07-05 Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-06-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-09 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5966.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-16 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-20 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. referral-committee
• 2012-08-20 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HEALTH pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 4596.) Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2012-08-22 Set for hearing August 22.
• 2012-08-22 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4792.) committee-passage
• 2012-08-23 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4762.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 451, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a2daf1cf-2e3e-45a7-949c-551d86f12078. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).