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Bill	Medi-Cal: tobacco cessation services.	Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law provides for a schedule of benefits under the Medi-Cal program. Existing law requires that preventive services assigned a grade of A or B by the United States Preventive Services Task Force be provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries without any cost sharing by the beneficiary in order for the state to receive increased federal contributions for those services, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1696	California AB 1696 (20152016)	bill	Medi-Cal: tobacco cessation services.	enacted	Holden	9	26	8	2016-01-21	2016-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/6a757eda-9129-48f3-a76c-101fa6384b21	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1696	3d30dc3e1bf089af4edd6635da0617abb6d2f881706d2a6777a0aa11b448b0d9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1696 (20152016) — Medi-Cal: tobacco cessation services.

Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law provides for a schedule of benefits under the Medi-Cal program. Existing law requires that preventive services assigned a grade of A or B by the United States Preventive Services Task Force be provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries without any cost sharing by the beneficiary in order for the state to receive increased federal contributions for those services, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/21/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/07/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/28/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/31/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/27/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/25/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1696 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 17–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1696 HOLDEN Assembly Third Reading — 63–14 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1696 Holden By Pan — 29–8 (pass) · upper
• AB 1696 HOLDEN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–17 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 14–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Holden — primary (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-01-22 From printer. May be heard in committee February 21.
• 2016-02-08 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-03-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-08 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-03-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 1.) (March 15). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-03-28 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-04-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 6.) (May 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 14. Page 5213.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-06-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 22). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (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 29. Noes 8. Page 5027.). 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.
• 2016-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 17. Page 6109.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 606, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6a757eda-9129-48f3-a76c-101fa6384b21. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).