---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance: payment of contested health care claims: recertification of disabilities."
description: "Insurance: payment of contested health care claims: recertification of disabilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 2537"
citation: "California AB 2537 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance: payment of contested health care claims: recertification of disabilities."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2000-02-24"
last_action: "2000-08-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9f56534-1ead-413f-9d10-72150adece0d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2537"
source_hash: "a238a8ec05ee06c6d2d13d8a47052515439a1a13d6a3b81f1416b0207a6817b4"
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 2537 (19992000) — Insurance: payment of contested health care claims: recertification of disabilities.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/24/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2537&version=19990AB253799INT)
2. **04/13/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2537&version=19990AB253798AMD)
3. **06/19/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2537&version=19990AB253797AMD)
4. **08/25/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2537&version=19990AB253795CHP)
5. **AB2537** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2537)
6. **08/10/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2537&version=19990AB253796ENR)

## Votes

- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB2537 Thomson — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Thomson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2000-08-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 241, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-08-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-08-21** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
- **2000-08-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 7834.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-07-06** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2000-07-06** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5501.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-07-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-06-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2000-05-16** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-04** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 6185.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-04-27** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-04-26** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-04-24** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2000-04-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Health. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-03-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2000-02-24** Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a9f56534-1ead-413f-9d10-72150adece0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).