---
type: "Bill"
title: "Individual health care coverage."
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 its provisions a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law prohibits the cancellation or nonrenewal of an enrollment or subscription by a health care service plan except in specified circumstances. Existing law prohibits the nonrenewal of individual health benefit plans by a health insurer except in specified circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 108"
citation: "California AB 108 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Individual health care coverage."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hayashi"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2009-01-12"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a435575-bcfb-43d0-8496-af6bb2dc6c6b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB108"
source_hash: "589ed87dbb731f3546165cf176498bcff9abdb99be11ad963214f6ef177608ce"
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 108 (20092010) — Individual health care coverage.

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 its provisions a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law prohibits the cancellation or nonrenewal of an enrollment or subscription by a health care service plan except in specified circumstances. Existing law prohibits the nonrenewal of individual health benefit plans by a health insurer except in specified circumstances.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/12/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB108&version=20090AB10899INT)
2. **02/26/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB108&version=20090AB10898AMD)
3. **03/24/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB108&version=20090AB10897AMD)
4. **06/23/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB108&version=20090AB10896AMD)
5. **06/26/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB108&version=20090AB10895AMD)
6. **07/23/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB108&version=20090AB10894AMD)
7. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB108&version=20090AB10892CHP)
8. **AB108** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB108)
9. **09/10/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB108&version=20090AB10893ENR)

## Votes

- AB 108 HAYASHI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 108 HAYASHI Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB108 Hayashi By Cedillo — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hayashi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-01-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-01-13** From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
- **2009-02-26** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-03-02** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-01** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 13. Noes 6.) (March 31). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (April 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-27** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 29. Page 1347.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-22** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (June 17). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-23** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-07-06** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-07-23** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (July 14). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-23** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-17** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2009-08-31** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 5.) (August 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-08-31** (received by desk August 28, 2009 pursuant to JR61(a)(11))
- **2009-09-01** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-02** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 2128.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 50. Noes 29. Page 3119.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-25** Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 406, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a435575-bcfb-43d0-8496-af6bb2dc6c6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).