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Bill	Medi-Cal: emergency medical transport providers: quality assurance fee.	Existing law establishes 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 establishes a quality assurance fee program for skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities, as prescribed.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 523	California SB 523 (20172018)	bill appropriation	Medi-Cal: emergency medical transport providers: quality assurance fee.	enacted	Hernandez	8	31	8	2017-02-16	2017-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/9b2a7fbe-8761-4a7c-a424-7db9a8570116	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB523	29b75a60872e90ea04c19218c488ebfca230e38fe27c9d9691c62e7ddb5aa5bb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 523 (20172018) — Medi-Cal: emergency medical transport providers: quality assurance fee.

Existing law establishes 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 establishes a quality assurance fee program for skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities, as prescribed.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/30/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/06/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/24/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/22/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/13/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB523 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB523 Hernandez et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — 37–2 (pass) · upper
• SB 523 Hernandez Third Reading Urgency By BIGELOW — 72–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB523 Hernandez et al. Urgency Clause — 38–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hernandez — primary (person)
• Bigelow — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-03-30 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-04-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-07 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2017-04-20 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 808.) (April 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-04-24 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-05-01 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2017-05-03 May 8 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-05-04 Set for hearing May 15.
• 2017-05-15 May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-19 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1186.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 1273.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-07-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-30 August 30 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-09-01 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 4. Page 3046.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 2. Page 2693.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 773, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9b2a7fbe-8761-4a7c-a424-7db9a8570116. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).