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Bill	Medi-Cal: time and distance standards.	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, under fee-for-service or managed care delivery systems. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 530	California SB 530 (20252026)	bill	Medi-Cal timeanddistancestandards	enacted	Richardson	9	29	8	2025-02-20	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/11f558a4-7ec4-4051-8c2d-44a9bdac4d72	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB530	a482ea4f6a45b941bd08269e8da71bf1818af6c20ea6a097bf9129485d136da4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 530 (20252026) — Medi-Cal: time and distance standards.

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, under fee-for-service or managed care delivery systems. 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. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/23/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/09/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB530 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/13/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 28–7 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB530 Richardson et al. Concurrence — 32–6 (pass) · upper
• SB 530 Richardson Senate Third Reading By Patel — 78–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Richardson — primary (person)
• Weber Pierson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2025-03-05 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 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
• 2025-03-26 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2025-04-10 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 737.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-17 Set for hearing April 28.
• 2025-04-28 April 28 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-05-16 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1203.) (May 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 7. Page 1319.) 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
• 2025-07-09 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
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 15). 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 14. 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 and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 3076.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 6. Page 2838.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 418, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/11f558a4-7ec4-4051-8c2d-44a9bdac4d72. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).