---
type: "Bill"
title: "Continuity of care."
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 the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan or a health insurer to provide for the completion of covered services by a terminated provider for enrollees or insureds who were receiving services from the provider for a specified condition at the time of the contract or policy termination. Existing law also requires a health care service plan to provide for the completion of covered services by a nonparticipating provider to a newly covered enrollee who, at the time his or her coverage became effective, was receiving services from that provider for a specified condition. Existing law specifies that this provision does not apply to a newly covered enrollee under an individual subscriber agreement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 369"
citation: "California AB 369 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Continuity of care."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pan"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2013-02-14"
last_action: "2014-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24d7f183-fc3c-41c0-b1a5-4a2e652b6eaa"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB369"
source_hash: "902397e79ff9104cde12339cd204afdeabfb0f4ea5c694a998a4bbd55d6ab8dc"
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 369 (20132014) — Continuity of care.

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 the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan or a health insurer to provide for the completion of covered services by a terminated provider for enrollees or insureds who were receiving services from the provider for a specified condition at the time of the contract or policy termination. Existing law also requires a health care service plan to provide for the completion of covered services by a nonparticipating provider to a newly covered enrollee who, at the time his or her coverage became effective, was receiving services from that provider for a specified condition. Existing law specifies that this provision does not apply to a newly covered enrollee under an individual subscriber agreement.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB369&version=20130AB36999INT)
2. **01/06/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB369&version=20130AB36998AMD)
3. **01/16/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB369&version=20130AB36997AMD)
4. **02/18/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB369&version=20130AB36996AMD)
5. **03/20/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB369&version=20130AB36994CHP)
6. **AB369** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB369)
7. **03/12/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB369&version=20130AB36995ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB369 Pan By Monning Urgency Clause — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 369 PAN Third Reading Urgency — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 369 PAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2013-02-28** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-01-07** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-15** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (January 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-01-16** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-01-17** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-23** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (January 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-01-23** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-01-27** From consent calendar.
- **2014-01-27** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-01-30** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3742.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-01-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-06** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-02-14** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (February 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-02-18** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-02-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (February 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-02-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-03-06** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 2874.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-03-06** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after March 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-03-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4048.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-03-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:25 p.m.
- **2014-03-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-03-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 4, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/24d7f183-fc3c-41c0-b1a5-4a2e652b6eaa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).