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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Inmates: health care enrollment."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20132014"
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identifier: "AB 720"
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citation: "California AB 720 (20132014)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Inmates: health care enrollment."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Skinner"]
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version_count: 10
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action_count: 31
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vote_count: 9
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first_action: "2013-02-21"
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last_action: "2013-10-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4c9b5cd-fdaf-428a-91d6-1c3a59859ecc"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB720"
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source_hash: "8abdd5d29cc63f4d41cae5f48ada2f52279c785b402d5c458f77dd8641a516a7"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 720 (20132014) — Inmates: health care enrollment.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/21/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB720&version=20130AB72099INT)
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2. **04/11/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB720&version=20130AB72098AMD)
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3. **05/24/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB720&version=20130AB72097AMD)
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4. **06/24/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB720&version=20130AB72096AMD)
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5. **07/09/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB720&version=20130AB72095AMD)
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6. **09/03/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB720&version=20130AB72094AMD)
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7. **09/06/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB720&version=20130AB72093AMD)
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8. **10/08/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB720&version=20130AB72091CHP)
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9. **AB720** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB720)
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10. **09/18/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB720&version=20130AB72092ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 720 SKINNER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **59–17** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended. — **13–4** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB720 Skinner By Hernandez — **36–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Public Safety. — **7–2** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 720 SKINNER Assembly Third Reading — **56–19** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended. — **6–1** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Skinner — primary (person)
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- Beall — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2013-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2013-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
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- **2013-03-04** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2013-04-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **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`
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- **2013-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2013-05-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2013-05-24** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2013-05-24** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2013-05-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2013-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 19. Page 1754.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2013-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2013-06-13** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **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`
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- **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`
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- **2013-07-09** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2013-08-08** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2013-08-19** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
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- **2013-08-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2013-09-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2013-09-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2013-09-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2013-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2334.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2013-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2013-09-11** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3227.)
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- **2013-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 17. Page 3235.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2013-09-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
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- **2013-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2013-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 646, Statutes of 2013.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4c9b5cd-fdaf-428a-91d6-1c3a59859ecc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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