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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health care coverage: reproductive health care services."
+description: "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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 1954"
+citation: "California AB 1954 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health care coverage: reproductive health care services."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Burke"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2016-02-12"
+last_action: "2016-09-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54c5e197-3b4f-4037-9fee-b9a17635ed65"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954"
+source_hash: "6df63b1eb21a613befd6f52a695d5d126af06d51a452fa4dff1e42c850b264b1"
+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 AB 1954 (20152016) — Health care coverage: reproductive health care services.
+
+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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/12/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195499INT)
+2. **04/13/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195498AMD)
+3. **04/25/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195497AMD)
+4. **05/09/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195496AMD)
+5. **06/13/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195495AMD)
+6. **06/27/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195494AMD)
+7. **08/17/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195493AMD)
+8. **09/23/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195491CHP)
+9. **AB1954** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954)
+10. **08/30/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195492ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–4** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading AB1954 Burke By Mitchell — **28–11** (pass) · upper
+- AB 1954 BURKE Assembly Third Reading — **53–23** (pass) · lower
+- AB 1954 BURKE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **59–19** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended. — **15–5** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–2** (pass) · upper
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Burke — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2016-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
+- **2016-02-25** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-04-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-04-14** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-04-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (April 19). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-04-25** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-04-26** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-05-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 5.) (May 4). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-05-09** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 23. Page 4894.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2016-06-09** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-06-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 22). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-06-27** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-01** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2016-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-17** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 5253.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2016-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 19. Page 6341.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:30 p.m.
+- **2016-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2016-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 495, Statutes of 2016.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54c5e197-3b4f-4037-9fee-b9a17635ed65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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