---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maternity services."
description: "Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Under existing law, a health insurer that provides maternity coverage may not restrict inpatient hospital benefits, as specified, and is required to provide notice of the maternity services coverage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 210"
citation: "California AB 210 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Maternity services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roger Hernández"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2011-01-31"
last_action: "2011-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5e072b9-c9ce-4505-b060-12057e118797"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB210"
source_hash: "4ca882fd8cffd6ff29a02e509fbe5c781f1b59b38a3663e598a72595cbba0dd1"
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 210 (20112012) — Maternity services.

Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Under existing law, a health insurer that provides maternity coverage may not restrict inpatient hospital benefits, as specified, and is required to provide notice of the maternity services coverage.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/31/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB210&version=20110AB21099INT)
2. **04/04/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB210&version=20110AB21098AMD)
3. **05/27/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB210&version=20110AB21097AMD)
4. **06/01/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB210&version=20110AB21096AMD)
5. **06/29/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB210&version=20110AB21095AMD)
6. **07/12/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB210&version=20110AB21094AMD)
7. **08/15/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB210&version=20110AB21093AMD)
8. **09/01/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB210&version=20110AB21092AMD)
9. **10/06/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB210&version=20110AB21090CHP)
10. **AB210** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB210)
11. **09/09/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB210&version=20110AB21091ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **14–5** (pass) · lower
- AB 210 SOLORIO Assembly Third Reading — **53–20** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 210 HERNÁNDEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **54–25** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **6–3** (pass) · upper
- 2nd Reading AB210 Roger Hernández By Leno — **25–11** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Roger Hernández — primary (person)
- Alejo — coauthor (person)
- Ammiano — coauthor (person)
- Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
- Bonnie Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Carter — coauthor (person)
- Huffman — coauthor (person)
- Williams — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-01-31** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
- **2011-02-18** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-05** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 5.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-27** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-27** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-01** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1692.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 20. Page 1860.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-16** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-27** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-06-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-07-11** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (July 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-12** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-15** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-08-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (August 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-09-01** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-09-02** Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 2273.)
- **2011-09-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 2274.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-09-02** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-09-07** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 2965.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2011-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 508, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5e072b9-c9ce-4505-b060-12057e118797`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).