republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-32.md

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Bill	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, Medi-Cal services may be provided pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care health plans, including through a county organized health system. Under existing law, in-person contact between a health care provider and a patient is not required under the Medi-Cal program for services appropriately provided through telehealth. Existing law provides that neither face-to-face contact nor a patient's physical presence on the premises of an enrolled community clinic is required for services provided by the clinic to a Medi-Cal beneficiary during or immediately following a proclamation declaring a state of emergency. Existing law defines "immediately following" for this purpose to mean up to 90 days following the termination of the proclaimed state of emergency, unless there are extraordinary circumstances.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 32	California AB 32 (20212022)	bill	Telehealth.	enacted	Aguiar-Curry	11	37	8	2020-12-07	2022-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/1c64626e-68f3-42dd-abbb-aab39e3af9a5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB32	b3af35390f067bae689d8272add054977bc8e68c8fb56df38d5294dcea6a0727	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 32 (20212022) — 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, Medi-Cal services may be provided pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care health plans, including through a county organized health system. Under existing law, in-person contact between a health care provider and a patient is not required under the Medi-Cal program for services appropriately provided through telehealth. Existing law provides that neither face-to-face contact nor a patient's physical presence on the premises of an enrolled community clinic is required for services provided by the clinic to a Medi-Cal beneficiary during or immediately following a proclamation declaring a state of emergency. Existing law defines "immediately following" for this purpose to mean up to 90 days following the termination of the proclaimed state of emergency, unless there are extraordinary circumstances.

Version chain

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

1. 12/07/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/12/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/20/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/01/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/24/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/25/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB32 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 32 Aguiar-Curry Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB32 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 32 Aguiar-Curry Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Aguiar-Curry — primary (person)
• Arambula — coauthor (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Choi — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Cunningham — coauthor (person)
• Davies — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Quirk — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Robert Rivas — author (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)
• Villapudua — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-12-08 From printer. May be heard in committee January 7.
• 2021-01-11 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-02-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-02-16 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-04-15 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-04-19 Measure version as revised on April 15 corrected.
• 2021-04-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-04-27 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1744.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-07-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-06-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-07-27 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-08-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-08 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-30 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5367.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 515, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c64626e-68f3-42dd-abbb-aab39e3af9a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).