republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-1625.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human services."
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. Existing law establishes a managed care organization provider tax, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services. The tax is assessed by the department on licensed health care service plans, managed care plans contracted with the department to provide Medi-Cal services, and alternate health care service plans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1625"
citation: "California AB 1625 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Human services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2016-01-07"
last_action: "2016-09-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02fefef3-734f-4524-854c-cfcfcbd6de25"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1625"
source_hash: "eaadd36d4261435ca150beb37b185131c0e2b2514b648158b3b53a193046ddd6"
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 AB 1625 (20152016) — Human services.

(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. Existing law establishes a managed care organization provider tax, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services. The tax is assessed by the department on licensed health care service plans, managed care plans contracted with the department to provide Medi-Cal services, and alternate health care service plans.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/07/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1625&version=20150AB162599INT)
2. **04/14/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1625&version=20150AB162598AMD)
3. **08/08/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1625&version=20150AB162597AMD)
4. **08/15/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1625&version=20150AB162596AMD)
5. **09/13/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1625&version=20150AB162594CHP)
6. **AB1625** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1625)
7. **08/25/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1625&version=20150AB162595ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1625 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By TING — **51–26** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1625 Committee On BUDGET (Ting) By Leno — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1625 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING — **74–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-01-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-01-08** From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
- **2016-02-01** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on BUDGET. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-25** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 25. Page 4488.)
- **2016-04-25** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-04-25** Ordered to third reading.
- **2016-04-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 26. Page 4582.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-13** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-08-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. 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`
- **2016-08-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5019.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 4. Page 6223.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-09-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 320, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02fefef3-734f-4524-854c-cfcfcbd6de25`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).