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 06/29/26 - Enrolled
 06/16/26 - Amended Assembly
 01/23/25 - Introduced

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

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 Date Published: 07/08/2026 09:00 PM

SB177:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Senate Bill

 No. 177

 CHAPTER 64

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.

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 July 06, 2026.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 July 06, 2026.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 177, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review.
 Medi-Cal: Fair Share from Big Corporations 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 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in the Medi-Cal program, as specified, unless the Medicaid program-related provisions of a specified federal law are repealed on or before March 1, 2027.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.

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 percent of adults who receive Medicaid benefits are working and are getting paid poverty wages.

(g) A 2022 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report notes that, despite the rhetoric, work requirements are not likely to lead to increased employment unless paired with targeted work supports, such as childcare and transportation.

(h) Being denied health care does not make anyone better at finding a
 job, keeping a job, or getting more hours at the job they already have.

(i) Being threatened with losing health care does not help the millions of working adults who currently receive Medi-Cal benefits to increase their wages enough to afford nongovernment-funded health care or secure a job that has adequate health coverage.

(j) A growing body of research shows a healthy workforce provides businesses with a competitive advantage.

(k) When a big corporation relies on Medi-Cal to provide their employees with health insurance, they are relying on what amounts to