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type: "Bill"
title: "Medi-Cal: managed care organization tax."
description: "(1) Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care plans. Existing law, until July 1, 2016, imposes a sales tax on sellers of Medi-Cal managed care plans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016 Special Session 2"
identifier: "SB 2"
citation: "California SB 2 (20152016 Special Session 2)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Medi-Cal: managed care organization tax."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hernandez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2015-07-06"
last_action: "2016-03-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f8ac8b3-1dd9-404c-aaf1-f21491284000"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB2"
source_hash: "8db13e96b674241ac314a215875b8ba7eba35d649d862d7b183bdacbfa7b9d41"
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 SB 2 (20152016 Special Session 2) — Medi-Cal: managed care organization tax.
(1) Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care plans. Existing law, until July 1, 2016, imposes a sales tax on sellers of Medi-Cal managed care plans.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **07/06/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB2&version=20152SB299INT)
2. **02/22/16 - Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB2&version=20152SB297AMD)
3. **03/01/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB2&version=20152SB295CHP)
4. **09/04/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB2&version=20152SB298AMD)
5. **SB2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB2)
6. **02/29/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB2&version=20152SB296ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading — **2513** (pass) · upper
- SB 2 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By BONTA — **531** (pass) · lower
- SB 2 Hernandez Conference Report By BONTA — **6116** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB2 Hernandez Concurrence — **139** (fail) · upper
- Conference Report — **2811** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hernandez — primary (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-07-06** Introduced. `introduction`
- **2015-07-06** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2015-07-06** To print.
- **2015-07-06** Ordered to second reading.
- **2015-07-07** From printer.
- **2015-07-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 58.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-09-04** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 28. Page 76.)
- **2015-09-04** Without reference to committee or file. `referral-committee`
- **2015-09-04** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-04** Ordered to third reading.
- **2015-09-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 53. Noes 1. Page 89.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-09** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2015-09-10** Senate refused to concur in Assembly amendments. (Ayes 1. Noes 39. Page 77.) `committee-failure, amendment-failure`
- **2015-09-10** Ordered to Conference Committee. `referral-committee`
- **2015-09-23** Assembly Members Bonta (Co-Chair), Bonilla, Gallagher, Patterson and Santiago appointed to Conference Committee.
- **2015-09-24** Senators Hernandez (Co-Chair), Leno, Mitchell, Nielsen and vacancy appointed to Conference Committee.
- **2016-02-08** Senator Anderson appointed to Conference Committee.
- **2016-02-09** Set for hearing February 10.
- **2016-02-09** February 10 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-02-19** Set for hearing February 22.
- **2016-02-22** From Conference Committee: Be adopted. (Ayes 6: Senators Mitchell, Leno and Hernandez, Assembly Members Bonilla, Santiago and Bonta. Noes 4: Senators Nielsen and Anderson, Assembly Members Gallagher and Patterson)
- **2016-02-22** To print.
- **2016-02-23** From printer.
- **2016-02-29** Senate adopted Conference Committee report. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 92.) `committee-passage`
- **2016-02-29** Assembly adopted Conference Committee report. (Ayes 61. Noes 16. Page 161.) `committee-passage`
- **2016-03-01** Ordered to enrgrossing and enrolling.
- **2016-03-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2016-03-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-03-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 2, Statutes of 2015-16 Second Extraordinary Session.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f8ac8b3-1dd9-404c-aaf1-f21491284000`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).