republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-246.md

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Bill	Medi-Cal: graduate medical education payments.	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	SB 246	California SB 246 (20252026)	bill appropriation	Medi-Cal graduatemedicaleducationpayments	enacted	Grove	4	23	7	2025-01-30	2025-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/6d9d3230-f92d-4851-94a7-981581af1a93	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB246	689c1f133cfdbbfaa3333e0f930145f28b2c0661f69eb73067cba68a4d0dc6b8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 246 (20252026) — Medi-Cal: graduate medical education payments.

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. 01/30/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 10/03/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. SB246 (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/08/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 246 Grove Senate Third Reading By Hadwick — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent SB246 Grove et al. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Grove — primary (person)
• Caballero — author (person)
• Dahle — coauthor (person)
• Hurtado — coauthor (person)
• Macedo — coauthor (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-30 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-03 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2.
• 2025-02-14 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-03-17 Set for hearing April 2.
• 2025-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 636.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Set for hearing April 21.
• 2025-04-21 April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-05-16 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1192.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1323.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-05 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-06-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-20 August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2907.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2025-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 308, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d9d3230-f92d-4851-94a7-981581af1a93. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).