republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-744.md

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Bill	Health care coverage: telehealth.	Existing law provides for 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. Under existing law, face-to-face contact between a health care provider and a patient is not required under the Medi-Cal program for teleophthalmology, teledermatology, and teledentistry by store and forward. Existing law requires a Medi-Cal patient receiving teleophthalmology, teledermatology, or teledentistry by store and forward to be notified of the right to receive interactive communication with a distant specialist physician, optometrist, or dentist, and authorizes a patient to request that interactive communication.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 744	California AB 744 (20192020)	bill	Health care coverage: telehealth.	enacted	Aguiar-Curry	10	31	8	2019-02-19	2019-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/3845992f-7925-42a2-8901-d126867fd263	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB744	2df222e1aa5516aed9afee6eb2f1acc453e8525ddac1aa6833b37855397aeb2e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 744 (20192020) — Health care coverage: telehealth.

Existing law provides for 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. Under existing law, face-to-face contact between a health care provider and a patient is not required under the Medi-Cal program for teleophthalmology, teledermatology, and teledentistry by store and forward. Existing law requires a Medi-Cal patient receiving teleophthalmology, teledermatology, or teledentistry by store and forward to be notified of the right to receive interactive communication with a distant specialist physician, optometrist, or dentist, and authorizes a patient to request that interactive communication.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/22/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/09/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/10/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/13/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB744 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/19/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB744 Aguiar-Curry By Dodd — 36–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 744 Aguiar-Curry Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 744 Aguiar-Curry Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Aguiar-Curry — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2019-02-28 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-04-22 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
• 2019-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 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
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1941.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-06-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-06-25 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
• 2019-07-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-09 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: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Joint Rule 61 suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2733.)
• 2019-09-10 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 2919.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2019-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3562.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 867, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3845992f-7925-42a2-8901-d126867fd263. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).