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type: "Bill"
title: "Medi-Cal: managed care: California Children's Services program."
description: "Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law provides for the department to enter into contracts with managed care systems, hospitals, and prepaid health plans for the provision of various Medi-Cal benefits. Existing law prohibits services covered by the California Children's Services program (CCS) from being incorporated into a Medi-Cal managed care contract entered into after August 1, 1994, until January 1, 2016, except with respect to contracts entered into for county organized health systems in specified counties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 187"
citation: "California AB 187 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medi-Cal: managed care: California Children's Services program."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bonta"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2015-01-27"
last_action: "2015-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/108067ab-878f-4fb6-be72-a74839bb7cd2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB187"
source_hash: "919250fe11d7035fc98819a3d1a73fc8abd39c6ecbe2ae4a9f8488bf50c14168"
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 187 (20152016) — Medi-Cal: managed care: California Children's Services program.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law provides for the department to enter into contracts with managed care systems, hospitals, and prepaid health plans for the provision of various Medi-Cal benefits. Existing law prohibits services covered by the California Children's Services program (CCS) from being incorporated into a Medi-Cal managed care contract entered into after August 1, 1994, until January 1, 2016, except with respect to contracts entered into for county organized health systems in specified counties.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB187&version=20150AB18799INT)
2. **03/04/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB187&version=20150AB18798AMD)
3. **05/28/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB187&version=20150AB18797AMD)
4. **10/10/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB187&version=20150AB18795CHP)
5. **AB187** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB187)
6. **09/08/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB187&version=20150AB18796ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended. — **170** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **160** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **80** (pass) · upper
- AB 187 BONTA Assembly Third Reading — **780** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB187 Bonta By Hernandez — **400** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bonta — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-01-27** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-01-28** From printer. May be heard in committee February 27.
- **2015-03-02** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-04** 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`
- **2015-03-05** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-14** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2015-04-22** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-05-28** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1797.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-11** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-17** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2015-08-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2455.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-09-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 738, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/108067ab-878f-4fb6-be72-a74839bb7cd2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).