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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 177: Medi-Cal: Fair Share from Big Corporations Act.

Enacted 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

SB 177 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on January 23, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Medi-Cal: Fair Share from Big Corporations Act. Primary sponsor: Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Most recent recorded action (July 6, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 64, Statutes of 2026.

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Official summary

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

Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency, headed by the Secretary of California Health and Human Services. Existing law further establishes, within the agency, a number of departments and other entities, including the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits.

This bill would create the Fair Share from Big Corporations Act pursuant to which the Department of Finance would be required to, on or before March 1, 2027, present to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee one or more options for holding the state’s largest corporations accountable for the taxpayer costs of their employees enrolled in the Medi-Cal program, as specified, unless the Medicaid program-related provisions of a specified federal law are repealed on or before March 1, 2027.

The bill would appropriate $10,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Finance for purposes of implementing the these provisions.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Committee on Budget and Fiscal ReviewPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)Senate—

“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. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 64, Statutes of 2026.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 5068.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. Unanimous consent granted to take up without reference to file.
  6. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  7. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 5896.) Ordered to the Senate.
  8. Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 14. Page 5891.)
  9. Withdrawn from committee pursuant to Asssembly Rule 96.
  10. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET.
  11. Referred to Com. on BUDGET.
  12. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

Sources

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