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type: "Bill"
title: "Medi-Cal: children: mobile optometric office."
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. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions, with specified coverage for eligible children and pregnant persons funded by the federal Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) . Existing federal law authorizes a state to provide services under CHIP through a Medicaid expansion program, a separate program, or a combination program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 502"
citation: "California SB 502 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medi-Cal", "children", "mobile optometric office"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ad39f9b-c9b4-43ba-84af-d4d67b9102ea"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB502"
source_hash: "552a5602be49a50d57ee1e470ea3d2a122a0635e1265aff417efa4faf24493ab"
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 502 (20232024) — Medi-Cal: children: mobile optometric office.
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, with specified coverage for eligible children and pregnant persons funded by the federal Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) . Existing federal law authorizes a state to provide services under CHIP through a Medicaid expansion program, a separate program, or a combination program.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/14/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB502&version=20230SB50299INT)
2. **03/27/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB502&version=20230SB50298AMD)
3. **04/17/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB502&version=20230SB50297AMD)
4. **06/30/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB502&version=20230SB50296AMD)
5. **10/08/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB502&version=20230SB50294CHP)
6. **SB502** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB502)
7. **09/14/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB502&version=20230SB50295ENR)
## Votes
- Unfinished Business SB502 Allen et al. Concurrence — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **160** (pass) · lower
- SB 502 Allen Senate Third Reading By Wood — **800** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **110** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **150** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Allen — primary (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
- **2023-02-22** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** 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`
- **2023-03-28** Set for hearing April 12.
- **2023-04-13** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 710.) (April 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-17** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-18** Set for hearing April 24.
- **2023-04-24** April 24 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2023-05-12** Set for hearing May 18.
- **2023-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1173.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-23** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2023-05-25** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1300.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2023-06-08** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-29** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-23** August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2023-09-01** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3160.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-11** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2023-09-12** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2677.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2023-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 487, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ad39f9b-c9b4-43ba-84af-d4d67b9102ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).