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type: "Bill"
title: "California Cancer Care Equity Act."
description: "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 through various health care delivery systems, including managed care pursuant to Medi-Cal managed care plan contracts. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 987"
citation: "California SB 987 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Cancer Care Equity Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Portantino"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-02-14"
last_action: "2022-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e1da3d7-56d9-4aa4-8979-ed3ec90ee11c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB987"
source_hash: "6949548825dbc0581a632795443ff2bad257eba78316eabe0258ae82a1873552"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SB 987 (20212022) — California Cancer Care Equity Act.
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 through various health care delivery systems, including managed care pursuant to Medi-Cal managed care plan contracts. 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. **02/14/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB987&version=20210SB98799INT)
2. **03/30/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB987&version=20210SB98798AMD)
3. **04/25/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB987&version=20210SB98797AMD)
4. **06/20/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB987&version=20210SB98796AMD)
5. **06/30/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB987&version=20210SB98795AMD)
6. **08/25/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB987&version=20210SB98794AMD)
7. **09/27/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB987&version=20210SB98792CHP)
8. **SB987** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB987)
9. **09/09/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB987&version=20210SB98793ENR)
## Votes
- Unfinished Business SB987 Portantino et al. Concurrence — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **61** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **80** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **340** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **140** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **140** (pass) · lower
- SB 987 Portantino Senate Third Reading By Blanca Rubio — **780** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Portantino — primary (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-14** Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
- **2022-02-15** From printer.
- **2022-02-23** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Set for hearing April 20.
- **2022-03-30** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3461.) (April 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-25** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-29** Set for hearing May 9.
- **2022-05-09** May 9 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2022-05-13** Set for hearing May 19.
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 3778.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 3868.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-27** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-20** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 28). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-07-29** August 3 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-08-10** August 10 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2022-08-11** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-25** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-25** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-29** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-31** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5370.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2022-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 608, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e1da3d7-56d9-4aa4-8979-ed3ec90ee11c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).