---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance: dental services: reporting and disclosures."
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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 1008"
citation: "California SB 1008 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health insurance: dental services: reporting and disclosures."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Skinner"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-02-06"
last_action: "2018-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eea5c779-cc23-4be0-8197-28c52c84c90f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1008"
source_hash: "285a609c27fb9796a2059a1d7a8a4fecf36aa88f2780391e9404de78e3953a45"
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 1008 (20172018) — Health insurance: dental services: reporting and disclosures.

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 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. **02/06/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1008&version=20170SB100899INT)
2. **04/10/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1008&version=20170SB100898AMD)
3. **05/01/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1008&version=20170SB100897AMD)
4. **05/25/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1008&version=20170SB100896AMD)
5. **07/03/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1008&version=20170SB100895AMD)
6. **08/06/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1008&version=20170SB100894AMD)
7. **08/23/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1008&version=20170SB100893AMD)
8. **09/29/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1008&version=20170SB100891CHP)
9. **SB1008** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1008)
10. **09/06/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1008&version=20170SB100892ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **31–6** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 1008 Skinner Senate Third Reading By WOOD — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB1008 Skinner Concurrence — **35–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Skinner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-06** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-07** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 9.
- **2018-02-14** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-10** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-19** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-20** Set for hearing April 25.
- **2018-04-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 4851.) (April 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2018-05-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-05-09** Set for hearing May 14.
- **2018-05-14** May 14 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2018-05-18** Set for hearing May 25.
- **2018-05-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4301.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2018-05-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-05-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 4382.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-31** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-07** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-02** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2018-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-08-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-08** August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2018-08-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-23** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-08-23** Ordered to third reading.
- **2018-08-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6962.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-30** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2018-08-31** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 6126.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2018-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 933, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eea5c779-cc23-4be0-8197-28c52c84c90f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).