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Bill	Medi-Cal: specialty mental health services: foster children.	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 law provides that specialty mental health services and Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) for any individual under 21 years of age are covered under Medi-Cal, consistent with the requirements of federal law. Federal law defines EPSDT to include screening services, vision services, dental services, hearing services, and other necessary services to correct or ameliorate defects and physical and mental illnesses and conditions discovered by the screening services, whether or not the services are covered under the state plan. Existing law provides that specialty mental health services include EPSDT services provided to eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries under 21 years of age.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1299	California AB 1299 (20152016)	bill	Medi-Cal: specialty mental health services: foster children.	enacted	Ridley-Thomas	8	35	9	2015-02-27	2016-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/9e288216-9e6f-4000-947e-58f9ab917bb4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1299	5be18f909f5b92e40333e4be105a8e1741d2ccaee7883c77cd0ba7584794c78f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1299 (20152016) — Medi-Cal: specialty mental health services: foster children.

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 law provides that specialty mental health services and Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) for any individual under 21 years of age are covered under Medi-Cal, consistent with the requirements of federal law. Federal law defines EPSDT to include screening services, vision services, dental services, hearing services, and other necessary services to correct or ameliorate defects and physical and mental illnesses and conditions discovered by the screening services, whether or not the services are covered under the state plan. Existing law provides that specialty mental health services include EPSDT services provided to eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries under 21 years of age.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/21/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/16/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/01/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/18/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/25/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1299 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/31/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1299 RIDLEY-THOMAS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1299 RIDLEY-THOMAS Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1299 Ridley-Thomas By Hertzberg — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ridley-Thomas — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Huff — 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 Coms. on HUM. S. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-04-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 14). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-21 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1613.)
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1727.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-11 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2015-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 14). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-27 In committee: Held under submission.
• 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
• 2016-08-16 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-08-16 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2016-08-17 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-08-17 Ordered to second reading.
• 2016-08-17 (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 5065.)
• 2016-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 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 5269.). 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.
• 2016-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 1. Page 6350.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2016-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 603, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9e288216-9e6f-4000-947e-58f9ab917bb4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).