---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: provider directories."
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. A willful violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires a health care service plan to provide a list of contracting providers within a requesting enrollee's or prospective enrollee's general geographic area."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 137"
citation: "California SB 137 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage: provider directories."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hernandez"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2015-01-26"
last_action: "2015-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15ba7ef3-acb4-4804-a9e5-c5b9a153631e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB137"
source_hash: "c9333da048d6e7b1cf922b94c5eb702bd16fee0d45a313d637694d93d0600738"
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 137 (20152016) — Health care coverage: provider directories.

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. A willful violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires a health care service plan to provide a list of contracting providers within a requesting enrollee's or prospective enrollee's general geographic area.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/26/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB137&version=20150SB13799INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB137&version=20150SB13798AMD)
3. **04/21/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB137&version=20150SB13797AMD)
4. **06/01/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB137&version=20150SB13796AMD)
5. **07/02/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB137&version=20150SB13795AMD)
6. **07/16/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB137&version=20150SB13794AMD)
7. **08/31/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB137&version=20150SB13793AMD)
8. **09/04/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB137&version=20150SB13792AMD)
9. **10/08/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB137&version=20150SB13790CHP)
10. **SB137** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB137)
11. **09/15/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB137&version=20150SB13791ENR)

## Votes

- SB 137 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By WOOD — **69–9** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **12–2** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **17–2** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB137 Hernandez Concurrence — **38–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hernandez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-01-26** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2015-01-27** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 26.
- **2015-02-05** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-03-27** Set for hearing April 15.
- **2015-04-20** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 650.) (April 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-04-21** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-24** Set for hearing May 4.
- **2015-05-04** May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2015-05-23** Set for hearing May 28.
- **2015-05-28** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1148.) (May 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1290.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-04** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-11** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-02** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-07** July 7 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2015-07-15** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 2.) (July 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-07-16** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-19** August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2015-08-28** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (August 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-04** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-04** Ordered to third reading.
- **2015-09-10** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 9. Page 3096.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-10** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2015-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 2. Page 2751.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
- **2015-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 649, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15ba7ef3-acb4-4804-a9e5-c5b9a153631e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).