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CA SB 987

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California Health Access Fund.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

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 by, and funded pursuant to, federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing federal law, enacted on July 4, 2025, sets forth various changes to different health care programs, including certain requirements for Medicaid eligibility with regard to work or community engagement reporting, redeterminations, and cost sharing, among other factors, for certain Medicaid populations pursuant to a specified implementation timeline. This bill would create the California Health Access Fund, to be administered by the department. Under the bill, moneys in the fund would include deposits, through any applicable transfers made by the Legislature, equal to the amount of any savings to the state resulting from decreased enrollment in the Medi-Cal program caused by enrollment barriers created by the above-described federal law. Under the bill, moneys in the fund would, upon appropriation, be used to ensure that California residents losing health care coverage due to the impacts of the federal law or due to any other divestments from the health care system can continue to receive health care services and that health care providers are reimbursed for these services.

Introduced
2026-02-05
Status date
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Latest action
2026-05-14 — May 14 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Weber Piersonauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-02-05

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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  2. 2026-02-09

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 8.

  3. 2026-02-18

    Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

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  4. 2026-03-09

    Set for hearing March 25.

  5. 2026-03-26

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3689.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  6. 2026-03-27

    Set for hearing April 13.

  7. 2026-04-13

    April 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  8. 2026-05-08

    Set for hearing May 14.

  9. 2026-05-14

    May 14 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

Versions

Documents

Votes

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

    2026-03-25 · pass · 10-0

    Member-level votes (11)
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Grove: other

  • Placed on suspense file

    2026-04-13 · pass · 7-0

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

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB987

Attribution

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