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Authors Sharp-Collins  
Subject Health care service plans: provider network transitions.
Relating To relating to health care.
Title An act to add Section 1373.655 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care.
Last Action Dt 2026-03-19
State Amended Assembly
Status In Committee Process
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Bill Actions
2026-03-23     Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2026-03-19     Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2026-03-19     From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.
2026-02-21     From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-02-20     Read first time. To print.
Versions
Amended Assembly     2026-03-19
Introduced     2026-02-20
Analyses TBD
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Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act’s requirements a crime. Existing law requires a health care service plan to notify an enrollee at least 60 days before the termination date of a contract between a health care service plan and a provider group or a general acute care hospital to which the enrollee is assigned. If the plan reaches an agreement with a terminated provider after sending that notice, existing law requires the plan to offer each affected enrollee the option to return to that provider and to reassign the enrollee to another provider if the enrollee does not exercise that option.