---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care providers."
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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 494"
citation: "California SB 494 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care providers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Monning"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2013-02-21"
last_action: "2013-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d2646e4-b6ec-4b56-bb42-51fe59a9f23e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB494"
source_hash: "b9e2bb311c0958407fed27ca9d31dc667c7d12e51fe237818689493711613e38"
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 494 (20132014) — Health care providers.

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.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB494&version=20130SB49499INT)
2. **04/03/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB494&version=20130SB49498AMD)
3. **05/28/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB494&version=20130SB49497AMD)
4. **08/05/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB494&version=20130SB49496AMD)
5. **08/19/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB494&version=20130SB49495AMD)
6. **09/03/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB494&version=20130SB49494AMD)
7. **09/06/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB494&version=20130SB49493AMD)
8. **10/09/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB494&version=20130SB49491CHP)
9. **SB494** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB494)
10. **09/19/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB494&version=20130SB49492ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB494 Monning Concurrence — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 494 Monning Senate Third Reading By MITCHELL — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Monning — primary (person)
- Hernandez — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-21** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2013-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2013-03-11** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-03** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-12** Set for hearing April 24.
- **2013-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 697.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-26** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2013-05-06** Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2013-05-17** Set for hearing May 23.
- **2013-05-24** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1015.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-28** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1167.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-30** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-17** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-08-05** 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`
- **2013-08-15** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-19** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-08-30** Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2013-08-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-06** Read third time and amended. (Page 2955.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-06** Ordered to third reading.
- **2013-09-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3193.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-11** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2013-09-12** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2424.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2013-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 684, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d2646e4-b6ec-4b56-bb42-51fe59a9f23e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).