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Bill	Medi-Cal: telehealth: state of emergency.	Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and 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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1494	California AB 1494 (20192020)	bill	Medi-Cal: telehealth: state of emergency.	enacted	Aguiar-Curry	10	29	8	2019-02-22	2019-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/7efe8e02-56bc-4a5c-8b0c-21555d2bc9be	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1494	21150ad73099982b7fb47850cc82989ae8b1f3fe72a211f8da1219bc195ee449	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1494 (20192020) — Medi-Cal: telehealth: state of emergency.

Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and 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.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/16/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/13/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/11/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/12/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1494 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/12/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1494 Aguiar-Curry et al. By McGuire — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1494 Aguiar-Curry Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1494 Aguiar-Curry Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Aguiar-Curry — primary (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• McGuire — coauthor (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-14 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-11 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2099.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-12 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2584.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3147.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 829, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7efe8e02-56bc-4a5c-8b0c-21555d2bc9be. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).