---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: contraceptives: annual supply."
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. Existing law also provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services through, among other things, managed care plans licensed under the act that contract with the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2016, to provide coverage for women for all prescribed and FDA-approved female contraceptive drugs, devices, and products, as well as voluntary sterilization procedures, contraceptive education and counseling, and related followup services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 999"
citation: "California SB 999 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage: contraceptives: annual supply."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pavley"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 35
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2016-02-10"
last_action: "2016-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14f42c98-0a4f-4ea4-9830-e1c111802185"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB999"
source_hash: "b72e9bcb5081f3b8b4e98e80c054b0b5c13158cdd64288b1fbeda9b2ba21fc72"
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 999 (20152016) — Health care coverage: contraceptives: annual supply.

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. Existing law also provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services through, among other things, managed care plans licensed under the act that contract with the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2016, to provide coverage for women for all prescribed and FDA-approved female contraceptive drugs, devices, and products, as well as voluntary sterilization procedures, contraceptive education and counseling, and related followup services.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/10/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB999&version=20150SB99999INT)
2. **03/29/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB999&version=20150SB99998AMD)
3. **04/18/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB999&version=20150SB99997AMD)
4. **06/20/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB999&version=20150SB99996AMD)
5. **08/01/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB999&version=20150SB99995AMD)
6. **08/19/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB999&version=20150SB99994AMD)
7. **09/23/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB999&version=20150SB99992CHP)
8. **SB999** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB999)
9. **08/30/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB999&version=20150SB99993ENR)

## Votes

- SB 999 Pavley Senate Third Reading Amendment Set #1 — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB999 Pavley Concurrence — **30–6** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **29–6** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **15–3** (pass) · lower
- SB 999 Pavley Senate Third Reading By GONZALEZ — **68–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pavley — primary (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Atkins — principal coauthor (person)
- Beall — coauthor (person)
- Block — coauthor (person)
- Bonilla — coauthor (person)
- Burke — coauthor (person)
- Campos — coauthor (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Dababneh — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — coauthor (person)
- Eggman — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gomez — principal coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — principal coauthor (person)
- Hall — coauthor (person)
- Hertzberg — principal coauthor (person)
- Hill — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Leyva — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stone — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
- Williams — coauthor (person)
- Wolk — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-10** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2016-02-11** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
- **2016-02-18** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-11** Set for hearing April 4.
- **2016-03-29** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-30** Set for hearing April 13 in HEALTH.
- **2016-03-30** April 13 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-04-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3377.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-06** Set for hearing April 13.
- **2016-04-14** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 3559.) (April 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-04-18** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-22** Set for hearing May 2.
- **2016-05-02** May 2 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-05-03** Set for hearing May 9.
- **2016-05-09** May 9 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-05-10** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2016-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3888.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 6. Page 3929.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-27** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-20** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 3.) (August 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-19** Read third time and amended. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5950.) `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-19** Ordered to third reading.
- **2016-08-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 68. Noes 8. Page 6228.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-25** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-08-26** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 6. Page 5447.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2016-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 499, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14f42c98-0a4f-4ea4-9830-e1c111802185`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).