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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maternity services."
+description: "Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Under existing law, a health insurer that provides maternity coverage may not restrict inpatient hospital benefits, as specified, and is required to provide notice of the maternity services coverage."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20112012"
+identifier: "SB 222"
+citation: "California SB 222 (20112012)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Maternity services."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Evans"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 9
+first_action: "2011-02-09"
+last_action: "2011-10-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/883da53e-e48e-4c2b-8bbe-09dfbd2c3a4d"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB222"
+source_hash: "d6be7ccc2ee451f6958f09a2770fba9e85794404b8b8ba14589c558ced03f10f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California SB 222 (20112012) — Maternity services.
+
+Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Under existing law, a health insurer that provides maternity coverage may not restrict inpatient hospital benefits, as specified, and is required to provide notice of the maternity services coverage.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/09/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB222&version=20110SB22299INT)
+2. **09/02/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB222&version=20110SB22298AMD)
+3. **10/06/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB222&version=20110SB22296CHP)
+4. **SB222** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB222)
+5. **09/12/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB222&version=20110SB22297ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Unfinished Business SB222 Evans Concurrence — **25–12** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **6–3** (pass) · upper
+- SB 222 Evans Senate Third Reading By LOWENTHAL — **52–26** (pass) · lower
+- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading — **26–13** (pass) · upper
+- SB 222 Alquist Senate Third Reading By LOWENTHAL Amend By LOWENTHAL Set #1 — **49–26** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–2** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **13–6** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Evans — primary (person)
+- Alejo — coauthor (person)
+- Alquist — author (person)
+- Ammiano — coauthor (person)
+- Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
+- Bonnie Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
+- De León — coauthor (person)
+- Huffman — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2011-02-09** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2011-02-10** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
+- **2011-02-17** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-03-31** Set for hearing April 27.
+- **2011-04-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 786.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-05-03** Set for hearing May 9.
+- **2011-05-09** Placed on APPR. suspense file.
+- **2011-05-20** Set for hearing May 26.
+- **2011-05-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3. Page 1114.) (May 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2011-06-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 1225.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2011-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2011-06-13** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 6.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-07-13** Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-08-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2011-09-02** Read third time and amended. (Ayes 49. Noes 26. Page 2823.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-09-02** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2011-09-07** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 26. Page 2994.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2011-09-07** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2011-09-08** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 12. Page 2408.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-09-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
+- **2011-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2011-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 509, Statutes of 2011.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/883da53e-e48e-4c2b-8bbe-09dfbd2c3a4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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