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Bill	Workers' compensation.	Under existing law, the Director of Health Care Services is authorized, for purposes of administering the Medi-Cal program, to suspend a provider of service from further participation under the program for specified reasons, including conviction of any felony or any misdemeanor involving fraud, abuse of the Medi-Cal program or any patient, or otherwise substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of a provider of service. Existing law requires the director, upon receipt of written notification from the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that a physician or other individual practitioner has been suspended from participation in the Medicare or Medicaid programs, to promptly suspend the practitioner from participation in the Medi-Cal program.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1244	California AB 1244 (20152016)	bill	Workers' compensation.	enacted	Gray	11	37	9	2015-02-27	2016-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/90f8b4a4-ee11-4696-92aa-166633f5b3aa	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1244	fdcbefea40e2497cb9083ceab9d709a51a9f573369bfc882cbf18050aeeb39ae	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1244 (20152016) — Workers' compensation.

Under existing law, the Director of Health Care Services is authorized, for purposes of administering the Medi-Cal program, to suspend a provider of service from further participation under the program for specified reasons, including conviction of any felony or any misdemeanor involving fraud, abuse of the Medi-Cal program or any patient, or otherwise substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of a provider of service. Existing law requires the director, upon receipt of written notification from the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that a physician or other individual practitioner has been suspended from participation in the Medicare or Medicaid programs, to promptly suspend the practitioner from participation in the Medi-Cal program.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/26/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/10/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/22/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/01/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/30/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1244 (committee substitute) — source
11. 08/31/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1244 GRAY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1244 Gray By Mendoza — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1244 GRAY Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gray — primary (person)
• Arambula — coauthor (person)
• Brown — coauthor (person)
• Cooley — coauthor (person)
• Cooper — coauthor (person)
• Daly — author (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Frazier — coauthor (person)
• Irwin — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Medina — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-23 Referred to Com. on W., P., & W. referral-committee
• 2015-04-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Held under submission.
• 2016-01-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W., P., & W. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W. referral-committee
• 2016-01-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (January 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-01-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 21). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-01-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-01-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-01-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3526.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-02-18 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2016-05-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-11 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-05-11 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2016-05-19 Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2016-06-14 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-06-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-08-08 Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5292.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-24 Re-referred to Com. on INS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2016-08-24 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6225.)
• 2016-08-25 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 25). committee-passage
• 2016-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6466.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 852, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/90f8b4a4-ee11-4696-92aa-166633f5b3aa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).