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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health care coverage: federal health care reforms."
+description: "(1) Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care market reforms. Among other things, PPACA requires applicable individuals to maintain minimum essential coverage, and imposes a shared responsibility penalty on an applicable individual who does not maintain minimum essential coverage. This provision is referred to as the individual mandate. PPACA prohibits a nongrandfathered health benefit plan from imposing a preexisting condition provision on an individual and requires a nongrandfathered health benefit plan to include coverage for essential health benefits, as defined. PPACA also includes a coverage guarantee that requires each health insurance issuer that offers health insurance coverage in the individual or group market in a state to accept every employer and individual in the state that applies for coverage, and prohibits discriminatory premium rates, as specified."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "SB 326"
+citation: "California SB 326 (20212022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health care coverage: federal health care reforms."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Pan"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2021-02-05"
+last_action: "2021-10-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61a39209-f8a3-430e-b6f8-3826a5dd852f"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB326"
+source_hash: "ab2ced0ed54a3eecfc192e025a42a7496985aa342e5483c34efeec366ef9961e"
+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 326 (20212022) — Health care coverage: federal health care reforms.
+
+(1) Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care market reforms. Among other things, PPACA requires applicable individuals to maintain minimum essential coverage, and imposes a shared responsibility penalty on an applicable individual who does not maintain minimum essential coverage. This provision is referred to as the individual mandate. PPACA prohibits a nongrandfathered health benefit plan from imposing a preexisting condition provision on an individual and requires a nongrandfathered health benefit plan to include coverage for essential health benefits, as defined. PPACA also includes a coverage guarantee that requires each health insurance issuer that offers health insurance coverage in the individual or group market in a state to accept every employer and individual in the state that applies for coverage, and prohibits discriminatory premium rates, as specified.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/05/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB326&version=20210SB32699INT)
+2. **06/30/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB326&version=20210SB32698AMD)
+3. **09/01/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB326&version=20210SB32697AMD)
+4. **10/09/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB326&version=20210SB32695CHP)
+5. **SB326** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB326)
+6. **09/10/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB326&version=20210SB32696ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
+- SB 326 Pan Senate Third Reading By Wood — **62–0** (pass) · lower
+- Unfinished Business SB326 Pan et al. Concurrence — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading SB326 Pan et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Pan — primary (person)
+- Wood — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-05** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
+- **2021-02-08** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
+- **2021-02-08** Read first time. `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-17** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-22** Set for hearing March 10.
+- **2021-02-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
+- **2021-02-22** (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
+- **2021-02-22** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
+- **2021-03-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 457.) (March 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-09** Set for hearing April 19.
+- **2021-04-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2021-04-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-05-06** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1034.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-05-06** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2021-05-13** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-30** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-07-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-08-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-08-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-09-01** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-09-01** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2021-09-07** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 62. Noes 0. Page 2815.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-09-07** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2021-09-08** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2521.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
+- **2021-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 764, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61a39209-f8a3-430e-b6f8-3826a5dd852f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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