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Bill	Medi-Cal: field medicine.	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	20252026	AB 543	California AB 543 (20252026)	bill	Medi-Cal fieldmedicine	enacted	Mark González	11	32	8	2025-02-11	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/903a5798-a4ff-4da9-ae1c-0ff71cc62561	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB543	c7c6c19bfae74aa603f82ed7baa8a692f58521fb533b7af0a41dc73e54ee527b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 543 (20252026) — Medi-Cal: field medicine.

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. 02/11/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/11/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/08/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/11/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/23/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/05/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB543 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 543 Mark González Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB543 Mark González et al. By Rubio — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 543 Mark González Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark González — primary (person)
• Celeste Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
• Elhawary — coauthor (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Harabedian — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Schiavo — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2025-02-24 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 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
• 2025-03-12 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-04-08 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
• 2025-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1836.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-06-11 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
• 2025-06-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-06-23 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-07 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-08-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2738.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3197.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 374, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/903a5798-a4ff-4da9-ae1c-0ff71cc62561. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).