republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-781.md

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Bill	Medi-Cal: family respite care.	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. Existing law provides that pediatric day health care is a covered benefit under the Medi-Cal program and that pediatric day health care does not include inpatient long-term care or family respite care.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 781	California AB 781 (20192020)	bill	Medi-Cal: family respite care.	enacted	Maienschein	6	17	5	2019-02-19	2019-07-09	openstates	ocd-bill/d5dd904f-eaf0-4537-b324-52e2ba67e46d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB781	88117d20a9d32b06716ef0dd015fc89a7c6de836eb20a10d6f0486c93e318181	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 781 (20192020) — Medi-Cal: family respite care.

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. Existing law provides that pediatric day health care is a covered benefit under the Medi-Cal program and that pediatric day health care does not include inpatient long-term care or family respite care.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/10/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/09/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB781 (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/28/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 781 Maienschein Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 781 Maienschein Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar AB781 — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Maienschein — 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
• 2019-03-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-01 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1040.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-04-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-04-24 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-06-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-10 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-06-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1607.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-06-18 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-06-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2453.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-07-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-07-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-07-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 64, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d5dd904f-eaf0-4537-b324-52e2ba67e46d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).