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 06/12/26 - Amended Senate
 01/08/25 - Introduced

 AB-177 Medi-Cal: Fair Share from Big Corporations Act.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/12/2026 07:40 PM

AB177:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 12, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 12, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 177

Introduced by Committee on Budget (Assembly Members Gabriel (Chair), Addis, Ahrens, Alvarez, Bennett, Bonta, Caloza, Connolly, Fong, Haney, Hart, Jackson, Lee, Ortega, Patel, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Rogers, Schiavo, Schultz, Sharp-Collins, Solache, Stefani, Ward, and Wilson)

January 08, 2025

 An act to add Division 11 (commencing with Section 19000) to the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to Medi-Cal, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 177, as amended, Committee on Budget.
 Medi-Cal: Fair Share Premium from Big Corporations Program. Act.

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 require 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in the Medi-Cal program, as specified, unless the Medicaid program-related provisions of a specified federal law are repealed on or before March 1, 2027.

Existing law establishes the Employment Development Department within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, administered by an executive officer known as the Director of Employment Development, who is vested with certain duties relating to unemployment compensation.

This bill would require the Employment Development Department, on or before May 1, 2027, to establish the Fair Share Premium from Big Corporations Program, commencing no sooner than January 1, 2028, as specified, unless the federal Medicaid provisions of a specified federal law are repealed on or before March 1, 2027. The

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

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

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 YES 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Division 11 (commencing with Section 19000) is added to the Unemployment Insurance Code, to read:

DIVISION 11. Fair Share from Big Corporations Act

19000.

 This Division shall be known, and may be cited, as the Fair Share from Big Corporations Act.

19000.3.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) Federal House Resolution 1 (Public Law 119-21) was passed on a partisan vote and signed by President Donald J. Trump on Independence Day, 2025.

(b) H.R. 1 made the largest cuts to the Medicaid program in history.

(c) H.R. 1 made these cuts in order to fund the largest tax breaks for big corporations in history, and those tax breaks amount to $900 billion in additional tax giveaways to profitable corporations at the expense of health insurance for low-income Americans.

(d) H.R. 1 gave these tax breaks to corporations regardless of whether they pay their workforce poverty wages, forcing their workforce to turn to safety net programs such as the Medicaid program.

(e) One of the most significant cuts in the Medicaid program, known as the Medi-Cal program in California, was a cut resulting from a new work and community engagement requirement.

(f) Data shows that 92