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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 618: Medi-Cal: behavioral health: data sharing.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 618 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 13, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Medi-Cal: behavioral health: data sharing. Primary sponsor: Maggy Krell (D). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (August 29, 2025): In committee: Held under submission.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

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, through fee-for-service or managed care delivery systems. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.

Under existing Medi-Cal provisions, behavioral health services, including specialty mental health services and substance use disorder treatment, are provided under the Medi-Cal Specialty Mental Health Services Program, the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program, and the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system (DMC-ODS) program, as specified.

This bill would require each Medi-Cal managed care plan, county specialty mental health plan, Drug Medi-Cal certified program, and DMC-ODS program to electronically provide data for members of the respective entities to support member care. The bill would require the department to determine minimum data elements and the frequency and format of data sharing through a stakeholder process and guidance, with final guidance to be published by the department by January 1, 2027, in compliance with privacy laws.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Maggy KrellPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly6
Mike GipsonCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly65

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. In committee: Held under submission.
  2. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  3. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  4. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18).
  5. Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
  6. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  7. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1904.)
  8. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  9. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
  10. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).
  11. Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
  12. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page