---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage."
description: "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act (Knox-Keene 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. The Knox-Keene Act requires a health care service plan that provides prescription drug benefits and maintains one or more drug formularies to provide to members of the public, upon request, a copy of the most current list of prescription drugs on the formulary, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 1052"
citation: "California SB 1052 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Torres"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2014-02-18"
last_action: "2014-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15622755-36cc-4f7b-8e7a-eaf542e8f088"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1052"
source_hash: "b95fbc9ff7188de845fe0842899b858fed6659da2d0b8f66a978bb51440acb82"
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 1052 (20132014) — Health care coverage.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act (Knox-Keene 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. The Knox-Keene Act requires a health care service plan that provides prescription drug benefits and maintains one or more drug formularies to provide to members of the public, upon request, a copy of the most current list of prescription drugs on the formulary, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1052&version=20130SB105299INT)
2. **03/28/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1052&version=20130SB105298AMD)
3. **04/29/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1052&version=20130SB105297AMD)
4. **05/27/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1052&version=20130SB105296AMD)
5. **06/30/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1052&version=20130SB105295AMD)
6. **08/04/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1052&version=20130SB105294AMD)
7. **08/18/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1052&version=20130SB105293AMD)
8. **09/25/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1052&version=20130SB105291CHP)
9. **SB1052** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1052)
10. **08/29/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1052&version=20130SB105292ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **30–6** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **14–4** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB1052 Torres Concurrence — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1052 Torres Senate Third Reading By GONZALEZ — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Torres — primary (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2014-02-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
- **2014-02-27** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-28** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-04-02** Set for hearing April 23.
- **2014-04-10** April 23 hearing rescheduled for April 24.
- **2014-04-28** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3280.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-29** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-05-02** Set for hearing May 12.
- **2014-05-12** Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2014-05-16** Set for hearing May 23.
- **2014-05-23** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 3707.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-27** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-27** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-28** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2014-05-28** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-05-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 6. Page 3696.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-29** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2014-06-09** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-17** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-06-26** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-04** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-06** Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2014-08-14** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-25** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6418.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-26** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2014-08-27** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4907.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2014-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 575, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15622755-36cc-4f7b-8e7a-eaf542e8f088`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).