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Authors Menjivar  
Principle Coauthors: Bonta  
Subject Health care coverage: essential health benefits.
Relating To relating to health care coverage.
Title An act to amend Section 1367.005 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care coverage.
Last Action Dt 2025-10-13
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Status Chaptered
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Bill Actions
2025-10-13     Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 739, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-13     Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-16     Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2025-09-08     Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2604.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2025-09-03     Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2873.) Ordered to the Senate.
2025-09-03     In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-08-21     Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-20     From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).
2025-07-16     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-07-01     From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2025-06-05     Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2025-05-28     In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
2025-05-27     Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1251.) Ordered to the Assembly.
2025-05-23     Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23     From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1190.) (May 23).
2025-05-16     Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-12     May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-02     Set for hearing May 12.
2025-05-01     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 965.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-23     From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2025-04-11     Set for hearing April 30.
2025-01-29     Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2025-01-10     From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 9.
2025-01-09     Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Versions
Chaptered     2025-10-13
Enrolled     2025-09-10
Amended Assembly     2025-07-01
Amended Senate     2025-04-23
Introduced     2025-01-09
Analyses TBD
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Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, requires the Department of Managed Health Care to license and regulate health care service plans and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law requires an individual or small group health care service plan contract issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2017, to include, at a minimum, coverage for essential health benefits pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract to cover the same health benefits that the benchmark plan, the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Small Group HMO 30 plan, offered during the first quarter of 2014, as specified.