republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1124.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates."
description: "Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that the State Department of Health Care Services develop Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for clinical laboratory or laboratory services in accordance with specified criteria. Existing law exempts from compliance with a specified regulation laboratory providers reimbursed pursuant to any payment reductions implemented pursuant to these provisions for 21 months following the date of implementation of this reduction, and requires the department to adopt emergency regulations by July 1, 2014."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1124"
citation: "California AB 1124 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Muratsuchi"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 31
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2013-02-22"
last_action: "2014-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e8cf582-8750-44ae-8ab1-89c316ad3ada"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1124"
source_hash: "ff3d7fb32477cd0a748ed69bdad3fbe79b363734677a3cba511e9bd4f5ebbbbc"
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 AB 1124 (20132014) — Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates.

Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that the State Department of Health Care Services develop Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for clinical laboratory or laboratory services in accordance with specified criteria. Existing law exempts from compliance with a specified regulation laboratory providers reimbursed pursuant to any payment reductions implemented pursuant to these provisions for 21 months following the date of implementation of this reduction, and requires the department to adopt emergency regulations by July 1, 2014.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1124&version=20130AB112499INT)
2. **01/17/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1124&version=20130AB112496AMD)
3. **02/14/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1124&version=20130AB112495AMD)
4. **03/28/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1124&version=20130AB112493CHP)
5. **05/24/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1124&version=20130AB112498AMD)
6. **07/02/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1124&version=20130AB112497AMD)
7. **AB1124** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1124)
8. **03/21/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1124&version=20130AB112494ENR)

## Votes

- amendments be concurred in. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- amendments be concurred in. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Veterans Affairs. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1124 MURATSUCHI Concurrence - Urgency Added — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1124 Muratsuchi By Hernandez Urgency Clause — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1124 MURATSUCHI Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Muratsuchi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2013-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2013-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2013-03-07** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on V.A. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on V.A. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-24** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-24** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1816.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-13** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-07-02** 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-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-01-17** 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-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-01-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2014-02-13** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (February 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-02-14** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-02-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (February 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-02-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-03-03** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 2858.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-03-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after March 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-03-06** Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-06** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4028.)
- **2014-03-10** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 10). `committee-passage`
- **2014-03-11** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. by unanimous consent. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-17** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (March 17). `committee-passage`
- **2014-03-20** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4144.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-03-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2014-03-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-03-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 8, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e8cf582-8750-44ae-8ab1-89c316ad3ada`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).