---
type: "Bill"
title: "Claims data disclosure."
description: "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensing and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Insurance Commissioner. Except as specified, existing law prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or contractor from disclosing medical information regarding a patient of the provider of health care or an enrollee or subscriber of a health care service plan without first obtaining an authorization."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 1196"
citation: "California SB 1196 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Claims data disclosure."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hernandez"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2012-02-22"
last_action: "2012-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/facacca3-6db3-4c8d-869a-917c84df5b1a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1196"
source_hash: "a08a55b182e4673057dc4727e46c19a0d4175bde35a78e8a3fe0c6d2557d6d16"
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 SB 1196 (20112012) — Claims data disclosure.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensing and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Insurance Commissioner. Except as specified, existing law prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or contractor from disclosing medical information regarding a patient of the provider of health care or an enrollee or subscriber of a health care service plan without first obtaining an authorization.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1196&version=20110SB119699INT)
2. **03/26/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1196&version=20110SB119698AMD)
3. **04/10/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1196&version=20110SB119697AMD)
4. **06/19/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1196&version=20110SB119696AMD)
5. **06/28/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1196&version=20110SB119695AMD)
6. **08/22/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1196&version=20110SB119694AMD)
7. **09/30/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1196&version=20110SB119692CHP)
8. **SB1196** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1196)
9. **08/31/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1196&version=20110SB119693ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business SB1196 Hernandez Concurrence — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1196 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By GORDON — **80–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hernandez — primary (person)
- Gaines — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-22** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2012-02-23** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2012-03-01** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-30** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2012-04-10** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-04-10** (Corrected April 17.)
- **2012-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3229.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-20** Set for hearing April 30.
- **2012-04-30** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2012-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 3404.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-03** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-25** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-18** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (June 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-19** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-06-28** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-09** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-16** From consent calendar.
- **2012-08-16** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-22** Read third time and amended. (Page 6086.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-22** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6341.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-28** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2012-08-29** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 4963.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2012-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 869, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/facacca3-6db3-4c8d-869a-917c84df5b1a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).