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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health insurance: small employer groups."
+description: "Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms. Among other things, PPACA prohibits a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage from applying a waiting period that exceeds 90 days."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "SB 1375"
+citation: "California SB 1375 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health insurance: small employer groups."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hernandez"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-02-16"
+last_action: "2018-09-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a690b37-c141-4020-bc47-6180bd376f70"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1375"
+source_hash: "bd09a627f5fec9bb663f4a3389d976869afced0cb9f45deecce4f8de34d0f5fa"
+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 1375 (20172018) — Health insurance: small employer groups.
+
+Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms. Among other things, PPACA prohibits a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage from applying a waiting period that exceeds 90 days.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1375&version=20170SB137599INT)
+2. **03/22/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1375&version=20170SB137598AMD)
+3. **04/17/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1375&version=20170SB137597AMD)
+4. **05/08/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1375&version=20170SB137596AMD)
+5. **08/09/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1375&version=20170SB137595AMD)
+6. **08/23/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1375&version=20170SB137594AMD)
+7. **09/22/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1375&version=20170SB137592CHP)
+8. **SB1375** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1375)
+9. **08/31/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1375&version=20170SB137593ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 1375 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By WOOD — **57–22** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–1** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–1** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading SB1375 Hernandez et al. — **27–11** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
+- Unfinished Business SB1375 Hernandez et al. Concurrence — **27–12** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hernandez — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2018-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
+- **2018-03-08** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-22** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-06** Set for hearing April 18.
+- **2018-04-12** April 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2018-04-13** Set for hearing April 25.
+- **2018-04-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 4853.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-08** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-14** Set for hearing May 22.
+- **2018-05-22** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2018-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 4339.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-29** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2018-06-04** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-08-09** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-08-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-23** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-23** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2018-08-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 22. Page 6584.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-28** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2018-08-28** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 12. Page 5870.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2018-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2018-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 700, Statutes of 2018.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a690b37-c141-4020-bc47-6180bd376f70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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