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type: "Bill"
title: "Medi-Cal: field medicine."
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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 543"
citation: "California AB 543 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medi-Cal", "fieldmedicine"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark González"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-02-11"
last_action: "2025-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/903a5798-a4ff-4da9-ae1c-0ff71cc62561"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB543"
source_hash: "c7c6c19bfae74aa603f82ed7baa8a692f58521fb533b7af0a41dc73e54ee527b"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB543&version=20250AB54399INT)
2. **03/11/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB543&version=20250AB54398AMD)
3. **04/08/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB543&version=20250AB54397AMD)
4. **06/11/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB543&version=20250AB54396AMD)
5. **06/23/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB543&version=20250AB54395AMD)
6. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB543&version=20250AB54394AMD)
7. **09/04/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB543&version=20250AB54393AMD)
8. **09/05/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB543&version=20250AB54392AMD)
9. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB543&version=20250AB54390CHP)
10. **AB543** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB543)
11. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB543&version=20250AB54391ENR)
## Votes
- Placed on suspense file — **60** (pass) · upper
- AB 543 Mark González Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **790** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB543 Mark González et al. By Rubio — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **160** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **100** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 543 Mark González Assembly Third Reading — **780** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **130** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/903a5798-a4ff-4da9-ae1c-0ff71cc62561`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).