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CA AB 499

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Robert F. Kennedy Farm Workers Medical Plan.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law, the Robert F. Kennedy Farm Workers Medical Plan, is a nonprofit voluntary employees beneficiary association, organized under federal law, that provides payments for health care and other benefits to its members. Existing law, until January 1, 2031, requires the State Department of Health Care Services to annually reimburse the plan up to $3,000,000 per year for claim payments that exceed $70,000 made by the plan on behalf of an eligible employee or dependent for a single episode of care on or after September 1, 2016. This bill would require the department to annually reimburse the Robert F. Kennedy Farm Workers Medical Plan up to $3,000,000 per year for claim payments that exceed $50,000 made by the plan on behalf of an eligible employee or dependent for a single episode of care.

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2025-10-06 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 370, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Ortegaauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-10

    Read first time. To print.

    reading-1

  2. 2025-02-11

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.

  3. 2025-02-24

    Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-03-26

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee

  5. 2025-04-09

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

    referral-committee

  6. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 23).

    committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable

  7. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  8. 2025-06-02

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 1. Page 1833.)

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  9. 2025-06-03

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  10. 2025-06-11

    Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

    referral-committee

  11. 2025-06-26

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  12. 2025-07-14

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

    referral-committee

  13. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29).

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  14. 2025-08-29

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  15. 2025-09-08

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 2612.).

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  16. 2025-09-08

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

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  17. 2025-09-15

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

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  18. 2025-10-06

    Approved by the Governor.

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  19. 2025-10-06

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 370, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-03-25 · pass · 12-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Arambula: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Chen: other
    • Sanchez: other
    • Flora: other

  • Do pass.

    2025-05-23 · pass · 12-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Calderon: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Ta: other
    • Sanchez: other
    • Dixon: other

  • AB 499 Ortega Assembly Third Reading

    2025-06-02 · pass · 65-1

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Addis: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • DeMaio: no
    • Hoover: other
    • Gallagher: other
    • Chen: other
    • Lackey: other
    • Ta: other
    • Tangipa: other
    • Ellis: other
    • Flora: other
    • Hadwick: other
    • Macedo: other
    • Castillo: other
    • Dixon: other
    • Sanchez: other

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-06-25 · pass · 9-0

    Member-level votes (11)
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Grove: other
    • Valladares: other

  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-07-14 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Seyarto: yes

  • Do pass

    2025-08-29 · pass · 5-2

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Dahle: no
    • Seyarto: no

  • 3rd Reading AB499 Ortega By Richardson

    2025-09-08 · pass · 29-10

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Wahab: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Niello: no
    • Jones: no
    • Alvarado-Gil: no
    • Choi: no
    • Seyarto: no
    • Strickland: no
    • Ochoa Bogh: no
    • Grove: no
    • Dahle: no
    • Valladares: no
    • Stern: other

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