---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: Department of Managed Health Care."
description: "Health care coverage: Department of Managed Health Care."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 78"
citation: "California AB 78 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage: Department of Managed Health Care."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gallegos"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "1998-12-08"
last_action: "1999-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c20d0bd-602a-4635-9ce6-0474509b20b6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB78"
source_hash: "1aa773da26c3bd2af57d0a14af2acceabf01f90788da31a84a840307104790a9"
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 78 (19992000) — Health care coverage: Department of Managed Health Care.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/08/98 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB78&version=19990AB7899INT)
2. **04/15/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB78&version=19990AB7898AMD)
3. **05/28/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB78&version=19990AB7897AMD)
4. **06/02/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB78&version=19990AB7896AMD)
5. **08/16/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB78&version=19990AB7895AMD)
6. **09/08/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB78&version=19990AB7894AMD)
7. **09/28/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB78&version=19990AB7892CHP)
8. **AB78** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB78)
9. **09/10/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB78&version=19990AB7893ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 78 GALLEGOS THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 78 GALLEGOS CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 2nd Reading AB78 Gallegos By Figueroa — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- Placed on Appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gallegos — primary (person)
- Shelley — principal coauthor (person)
- Soto — coauthor (person)
- Villaraigosa — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 525, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **1999-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 57. Noes 20. Page 4425.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **1999-09-09** Read second time. To third reading. Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 3164.) `reading-3, passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-09-08** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **1999-09-03** Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-09-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **1999-08-25** Joint Rule 61 (a)(10) suspended.
- **1999-08-25** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **1999-08-23** Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended.
- **1999-08-16** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-07-15** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 8. Noes 2.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **1999-06-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-06-04** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 28. Page 2477.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-06-03** Assembly Rule 69 (d) suspended.
- **1999-06-02** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **1999-06-01** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 7.) (May 26). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-12** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-21** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (April 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-04-19** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-15** 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`
- **1999-01-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **1998-12-09** From printer. May be heard in committee January 8.
- **1998-12-08** 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/9c20d0bd-602a-4635-9ce6-0474509b20b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).