---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: waiting periods."
description: "Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that take effect with respect to plan years on or after January 1, 2014. Among other things, PPACA prohibits a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage from applying a waiting period that exceeds 90 days."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 1034"
citation: "California SB 1034 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage: waiting periods."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Monning"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2014-02-14"
last_action: "2014-08-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b467416d-63de-4f4a-94cf-9547bca97e27"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1034"
source_hash: "e213a55c3b92b6bb0ac2e98cb33b12f50ffafc50a6a613fcc896517259c39003"
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 1034 (20132014) — Health care coverage: waiting periods.

Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that take effect with respect to plan years on or after January 1, 2014. Among other things, PPACA prohibits a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage from applying a waiting period that exceeds 90 days.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1034&version=20130SB103499INT)
2. **04/21/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1034&version=20130SB103498AMD)
3. **06/26/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1034&version=20130SB103497AMD)
4. **08/15/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1034&version=20130SB103495CHP)
5. **SB1034** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1034)
6. **08/05/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1034&version=20130SB103496ENR)

## Votes

- SB 1034 Monning Senate Third Reading By PAN — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1034 Monning Concurrence — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Monning — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2014-02-18** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
- **2014-02-27** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-14** Set for hearing March 26.
- **2014-03-25** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-03-26** Set for hearing April 9.
- **2014-04-10** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3162.) (April 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-21** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-04-22** Set for hearing April 28.
- **2014-04-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3277.) (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 3325.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-12** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-18** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-19** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-23** From consent calendar.
- **2014-06-23** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-06-26** Read third time and amended. (Page 5704.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-26** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-06-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5745.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-06-30** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2014-08-04** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4295.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2014-08-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-08-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 195, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b467416d-63de-4f4a-94cf-9547bca97e27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).