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Authors Alvarez  
Subject Mexican prepaid health plans.
Relating To relating to health care service plans.
Title An act to amend Section 1351.2 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care service plans.
Last Action Dt 2025-04-28
State Amended Assembly
Status Died
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2026-02-02     From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
2026-01-31     Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
2025-05-23     In committee: Held under submission.
2025-05-21     In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-21     Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1627.)
2025-05-14     In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-04-29     Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-28     Read second time and amended.
2025-04-24     From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22).
2025-04-21     Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2025-04-10     From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.
2025-03-10     Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2025-02-21     From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2025-02-20     Read first time. To print.
Versions
Amended Assembly     2025-04-28
Amended Assembly     2025-04-10
Introduced     2025-02-20
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 a crime.

Existing law requires a prepaid health plan to apply for licensure as a health care service plan if the prepaid health plan operating lawfully under the laws of Mexico elects to operate a health care service plan in this state. Existing law requires the application for licensure to demonstrate compliance with specified requirements, including that the prepaid health plan offers and sells in this state only employer-sponsored group plan contracts exclusively for the benefit of Mexican nationals legally employed in the County of San Diego or the County of Imperial, and their dependents, that pay for the delivery of health care services that are provided wholly in Mexico, except as specified. Existing law also requires the application for licensure to demonstrate that the prepaid health plan maintains a tangible net equity of at least $1,000,000 or to demonstrate a reasonable acceptable alternative reimbursement arrangement that the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care is authorized, in the director’s discretion, to accept.