---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care service plans and health insurers: solicitors and life agents: notice of contract changes."
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: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1163"
citation: "California AB 1163 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care service plans and health insurers: solicitors and life agents: notice of contract changes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-27"
last_action: "2015-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00da25d1-df2b-4796-be29-f9d09a9dc9b2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1163"
source_hash: "a7c2dafaeb1ba687b5428e41a90992d9ba5a590a7c8ec44cdbb922e4bb25e038"
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 1163 (20152016) — Health care service plans and health insurers: solicitors and life agents: notice of contract changes.

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. **02/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1163&version=20150AB116399INT)
2. **04/21/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1163&version=20150AB116398AMD)
3. **05/12/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1163&version=20150AB116397AMD)
4. **07/14/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1163&version=20150AB116396AMD)
5. **08/31/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1163&version=20150AB116395AMD)
6. **10/04/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1163&version=20150AB116393CHP)
7. **AB1163** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1163)
8. **09/09/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1163&version=20150AB116394ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Insurance] — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1163 RODRIGUEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1163 Rodriguez By Pan — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1163 RODRIGUEZ Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-27** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2015-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
- **2015-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2015-03-23** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and INS. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 14). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-04-21** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 6). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-05-12** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1543.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-04** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 8). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-07-14** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-15** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2015-08-17** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2015-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2408.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-02** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-09-03** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2859.)
- **2015-09-03** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2872.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 482, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00da25d1-df2b-4796-be29-f9d09a9dc9b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).