---
type: "Bill"
title: "Long-term care insurance."
description: "Existing law provides for the regulation of long-term care insurance by the Insurance Commissioner and prescribes various requirements and conditions governing the delivery of individual or group long-term care insurance in the state. Existing law establishes the California Partnership for Long-Term Care Program to link private long-term care insurance and health care service plan contracts that cover long-term care with the In-Home Supportive Services program and Medi-Cal and to provide Medi-Cal benefits to certain individuals who have income and resources above the eligibility levels for receipt of medical assistance, but who have purchased certified private long-term care insurance policies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 567"
citation: "California AB 567 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Long-term care insurance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8509a7d0-5d70-4e56-880d-1de4e28f07ec"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB567"
source_hash: "b0f51bcac00a2bf63d22d2fad71c0e039533c01ce339785b991df86eda9c74bc"
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 567 (20192020) — Long-term care insurance.

Existing law provides for the regulation of long-term care insurance by the Insurance Commissioner and prescribes various requirements and conditions governing the delivery of individual or group long-term care insurance in the state. Existing law establishes the California Partnership for Long-Term Care Program to link private long-term care insurance and health care service plan contracts that cover long-term care with the In-Home Supportive Services program and Medi-Cal and to provide Medi-Cal benefits to certain individuals who have income and resources above the eligibility levels for receipt of medical assistance, but who have purchased certified private long-term care insurance policies.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB567&version=20190AB56799INT)
2. **06/13/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB567&version=20190AB56798AMD)
3. **10/11/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB567&version=20190AB56796CHP)
4. **AB567** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB567)
5. **09/10/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB567&version=20190AB56797ENR)

## Votes

- AB 567 Calderon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **69–7** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Aging and Long-Term Care] — **13–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **17–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 567 Calderon Assembly Third Reading — **73–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Health] — **9–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB567 Calderon By Archuleta — **31–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Calderon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2019-02-25** Referred to Coms. on INS. and AGING & L.T.C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 1.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 2. Page 1810.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** Referred to Coms. on INS. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-08** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 2574.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-06** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 7. Page 3153.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 746, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8509a7d0-5d70-4e56-880d-1de4e28f07ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).