---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance fraud: annual fee."
description: "Existing law provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Insurance Commissioner. Existing law requires a disability insurer or other entity liable for any loss due to health insurance fraud doing business in California to pay an annual fee that does not exceed $0.10 per year for each insured in order to fund increased investigation and prosecution of fraudulent disability insurance claims. Existing law requires that 50% of those funds be distributed to the Fraud Division of the Department of Insurance for enhanced investigative efforts and that the other 50% be distributed to local district attorneys for the investigation and prosecution of disability insurance fraud cases, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 2138"
citation: "California AB 2138 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health insurance fraud: annual fee."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blumenfield"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2012-02-23"
last_action: "2012-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df1b9ec5-c6a4-4b36-a883-72479b7473c8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2138"
source_hash: "6c21abb8198c4b44e65d8791445410789f0a091cf886164eef4e5fc0d4a1b0c6"
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 2138 (20112012) — Health insurance fraud: annual fee.

Existing law provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Insurance Commissioner. Existing law requires a disability insurer or other entity liable for any loss due to health insurance fraud doing business in California to pay an annual fee that does not exceed $0.10 per year for each insured in order to fund increased investigation and prosecution of fraudulent disability insurance claims. Existing law requires that 50% of those funds be distributed to the Fraud Division of the Department of Insurance for enhanced investigative efforts and that the other 50% be distributed to local district attorneys for the investigation and prosecution of disability insurance fraud cases, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2138&version=20110AB213899INT)
2. **06/18/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2138&version=20110AB213898AMD)
3. **09/22/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2138&version=20110AB213896CHP)
4. **AB2138** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2138)
5. **08/31/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2138&version=20110AB213897ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2138 BLUMENFIELD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **72–6** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2138 BLUMENFIELD Assembly Third Reading — **71–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2138 Blumenfield By Correa — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blumenfield — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2012-03-08** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 2. Page 5054.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-06-07** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4697.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 6. Page 6313.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:45 p.m.
- **2012-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 444, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df1b9ec5-c6a4-4b36-a883-72479b7473c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).