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Bill	Inmates: health care enrollment.	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 federal law prohibits federal financial participation for medical care provided to inmates of a public institution, except when the inmate is a patient in a medical institution.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 720	California AB 720 (20132014)	bill	Inmates: health care enrollment.	enacted	Skinner	10	31	9	2013-02-21	2013-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/b4c9b5cd-fdaf-428a-91d6-1c3a59859ecc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB720	8abdd5d29cc63f4d41cae5f48ada2f52279c785b402d5c458f77dd8641a516a7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 720 (20132014) — Inmates: health care enrollment.

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 federal law prohibits federal financial participation for medical care provided to inmates of a public institution, except when the inmate is a patient in a medical institution.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/24/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/24/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/09/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/06/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/08/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB720 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/18/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 720 SKINNER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 59–17 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 13–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB720 Skinner By Hernandez — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Public Safety. — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 720 SKINNER Assembly Third Reading — 56–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Skinner — primary (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2013-03-04 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-04-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-05-24 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 19. Page 1754.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-13 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-06-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-08 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-07-09 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-08 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-08-19 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2334.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-09-11 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3227.)
• 2013-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 17. Page 3235.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2013-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 646, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b4c9b5cd-fdaf-428a-91d6-1c3a59859ecc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).