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California will be the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants who are living in the country illegally.

The budget will make all low-income adults eligible for the state’s Medicaid program by 2024 regardless of their immigration status.

Newsom signed the $307.9 billion budget that pledges to make all low-income adults eligible for the state's Medicaid program by 2024 regardless of their immigration status.

California is now the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally, a move that will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year.

California will be the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants who are living in the country illegally

The new program, which will take until 2024 to fully implement, will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people.

An additional 764,000 people will be insured through the state's Medi-Cal program, at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a $307.9 billion operating budget that will extend coverage to 764,000 people under California’s Medicaid program by 2024, and cost the state about $2.7 billion each year. So far 18 states provide prenatal care to all residents, including the undocumented, while California, Illinois, New York, Oregon and Washington have extended health care to all low-income children.

California is now the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally, a move that will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year.

California is now the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally, a move that will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year.